Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): > Sorry! I wrote Shift-Backspace but I meant Shift-Tab. > > Thanks. I appended that code to /etc/console-setup/remap.inc, then ran > > # dpkg-reconfigure console-setup ; dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration > > , but the problem remained. In Xterm, with Ctrl-left-arrow and > Ctrl-right-arrow I jump from word to word, and with Shift-Tab I go one tab > back. I want to do the same in VC, outside X, but they don't work.
Do you have the matching instructions in .inputrc? # Ctrl-Right arrow "\e[1;5C": forward-word # Ctrl-Left arrow "\e[1;5D": backward-word I didn't mention that because, in my case, I'd had those strings in there for a while but they never worked from VCs until Thomas accidentally typed Alt-Space and pointed me in the right direction. Naturally you have to check your escape-strings correspond to mine, or modify them accordingly. Prefixing ^V is your friend for this. Also it might be worth making a simple temporary change that's obvious (make a rarely-used unshifted key say "hello") to check that the rest of the changes are error-free. As I said, small errors make it silently ignored. Cheers, David.
