On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:15:43PM -0500, William Case wrote: > Now the question is, how do I set it up in my .inputrc? Just try "\e > \C-b": backward-word ? Or \e^B ? Just put the following line in your ~/.inputrc: "\e\C-b": backward-word The man page says the colon *must not* have a space after the key sequence. > How can I test that readline is even reading my .inputrc? $ bind -P | grep backward-word You should see something like: backward-word can be found on "\e\C-b", "\eb". Note the addition of the new key binding to the stock binding of M-b. 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