Re: Interrpreting modifier codes in /etc/inputrc ??

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William Case wrote:
> Thanks Tom;
> 
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:25 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:13:14 -0400
>> William Case wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a tutorial or manual that explains or shows what those modifer
>>> codes mean.  That is, I know "\e" must mean ESC key but what does the
>>> various other codes (e.g. "[1~") mean -- for sure. 
>> I'm pretty sure it just means those characters literally. The various
>> vt100 and greater style terminal emulations most commonly used
>> in things like gnome-terminal and xterm all generate escape
>> sequence that look like that. 
> 
> You are right -- if I type the those characters literally, the readline
> command is performed.
> 
>> The question then becomes finding out
>> which keys generate those escapes (but the odds are good it will
>> be the obvious ones like home and end, etc).
>>
> 
> That is the hard part.
> 
> what keys are equivalent to "\e[1;5C" and/or "\e[5C".  I would like to
> bind readline keys universally and systematically so that they don't
> interfere with other key setups (keymaps ?? such as Gnome has) yet can
> be easily remembered from terminal to terminal.
> 
> I could (and probably will) just create some new key bindings but I
> thought they should bear some resemblance to the existing binding.
> 
I am lazy - for moving back forth is a line, control of the arrow
keys moves word instead of character. Control of backspace deletes
deletes to the beginning of the word, and control of delete deletes
to end of word.

Mikkel
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