On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:18:28PM -0500, William Case wrote: > ]$ bind "\e\C-b": backward-word > > Tried it on a several word command line from History. No motion. Because of the peculiarities of shell quoting, you need to quote the key sequence inside single quotes because the double quotes are significant to bind bind '"\e\C-b"':backward-word Also note the lack of space around the colon when using the 'bind' command as opposed to putting it in ~/.inputrc. me -- 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