From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Ctrl+Arrows keys in .inputrc to move a word forward/backward by default
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ji3032$o6q$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329891383.7544.58.camel@arcfi-laptop.kola.fad.ru>
On 02/21/2012 10:16 PM, ArcFi wrote:
> I've been using cygwin for last 2-3 years so I've already configured my
> environment.
> Recently made a clean installation on a new server and found that keys
> to move a word forward/backward (Ctrl+Right/Left) do not work by
> default.
> This shortcut works out of the box in many popular linux distributions.
> Why not add this combination in the "/etc/skel/.inputrc" by default?
> Think it would be a nice usability improvement.
I find that Alt-F and Alt-B work great and keep my fingers much closer
to "home row".
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