Re: Shift-tab and Ctrl-arrow working within XTerm but not in tty* terminal

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes:

> Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.medina@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