On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:41 -0500, William Case wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 12:58 -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:37:29PM -0500, William Case wrote: > > > "\M-\C-b": backward-word > > > "\M-\C-f": forward-word > > > > > As I say, I have tried several different versions e.g "\M-\C-b": and > > > "\M-\C-f: but nothing works. Even after using C-xC-r or rebooting. (I > > > am familiar with emacs bindings.) > > > > In my setup Meta-Control-B sends a two character sequence of ESC ^B. > > > > The following seems to work: > > > > "\e\C-b": backward-word > > > > You can verify what your own setup does by pressing ^V (or just use cat) > > and pressing meta-control-b to see what the terminal is sending. > > ]$ ^V then Alt-Ctrl+b returns "^[" > cat returns nothing. Sorry Michael: ]$ cat -v ^[^B^C When input cat -v [Enter] then Alt-Ctrl+b -- Regards Bill Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28 Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines