David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > 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
That works fine! Thanks. But what about Shift-Tab? > 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. Which one? > 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. I'm afraid I don't quite understand, maybe because of my non-native English... Thanks, Rodolfo
