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I'm not sure if this is just me, but I've gotten used to pressing Ctrl-left-click and Ctrl-right-click in the terminal to move backward and forward a word, rather than just a letter. However, in Salix OS, when I press Ctrl-left-click, it just enters the letters "%5D" over and over. I found a solution here which basically says:

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Add the following lines to ~/.inputrc:

"\e[1;5C": forward-word   # ctrl + right
"\e[1;5D": backward-word  # ctrl + left

then to reload, type:

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bind -f ~/.inputrc

I'm not sure if it was just me having this problem, but I figured I would report my issue and the solution I found and maybe this will get into the next version of Salix OS.

Thanks!

I'm sorry, but where does that happen? Where do you see it?

This happens in xterm or other terminal emulators (with TERM=xterm). Press [CTRL]+[Left] or [CTRL]+[Right]. The default inputrc in Slackware has this:

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"\eOd": backward-word
"\eOc": forward-word

I have no idea which keys this escape sequences refer to.

To get the escape sequence of a key (or key combination) type [CTRL]+[v] followed by the key:
[CTRL]+[v] [CTRL]+[Left] results in ^[[1;5D.

So if you want to use [CTRL]+[Left] for backward-word you have to add to inputrc:

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"\e[1;5D": backward-word  # ctrl + left

but he's talking about ctrl-left-click and ctrl-right-click. Certainly the only thing that makes a click is the mouse?

Well, there's ratclick

Also I believe you can tell bash to use vim-like editing ... yes, here's a link to info about that and more:

http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/command-line-editing/

The 'fc' thing looks very handy, though beware (I just tried it and) if you exit your editor without saving (:q in vim) the previous command is executed unchanged.

EDIT

To exit without changing the command, and without executing it either (like ctrl-c in bash) do in vim

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:cq

(from a comment on a post about fc)

gapan wrote:but he's talking about ctrl-left-click and ctrl-right-click. Certainly the only thing that makes a click is the mouse?

I don't think he really means click. He means the keys. Everything else does not make sense for me

Hi guys, sorry I meant Ctrl+leftbutton and Ctrl+rightbutton, not mouse clicks.

Atticus wrote:Hi guys, sorry I meant Ctrl+leftbutton and Ctrl+rightbutton, not mouse clicks.

OK, so did you really try this solution or are you just posting what you found?

BTW, the \eOd and \eOc codes are for ctrl-left and ctrl-right keys, it's just only that they work in rxvt.

gapan wrote:BTW, the \eOd and \eOc codes are for ctrl-left and ctrl-right keys, it's just only that they work in rxvt.

So the correct inputrc entry would be:

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$if term=rxvt-unicode
"\eOd": backward-word     # ctrl + left 
"\eOc": forward-word      # ctrl + right
$else
"\e[1;5D": backward-word  # ctrl + left 
"\e[1;5C": forward-word   # ctrl + right
$endif

There are probably a lot of other differences in rxvt. See the insane inputrc of OpenSUSE: http://pastebin.com/g6e6NyL9

gapan wrote:
Atticus wrote:Hi guys, sorry I meant Ctrl+leftbutton and Ctrl+rightbutton, not mouse clicks.
OK, so did you really try this solution or are you just posting what you found?

BTW, the \eOd and \eOc codes are for ctrl-left and ctrl-right keys, it's just only that they work in rxvt.

I have been using the solution I posted and it has worked great for me. I'm on Salix 14.0 with Xfce using Xfce Terminal. Unfortunately, I don't have much experience with ~/.inputrc and how it works with other terminal emulators so I can't really offer you a well engineered solution beyond what I've posted.

My hope is that even if this suggestion isn't enacted in Salix then at least people who have this issue will find a solution here.

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