2009/4/27 Vincent R.
> on unix terminals when I press CTRL + RIGHT_KEY or CTRL+LEFT_KEY, cursor
> move from one word to another
> which is very handy.
> It doesn't work on mintty and I am sad about it ... ;-)
You'll need to configure that behaviour in ~/.inputrc, the config file
for the readline library. From the TIPS section of the mintty manual
page:
Readline configuration
Keyboard input for the bash shell and other programs that use
the readline
library can be configured with the so-called inputrc file. Unless over-
ridden by setting the INPUTRC variable, this is located at ~/.inputrc.
It consists of bindings of keycodes to readline commands,
whereby comments
start with a hash character. The file format is explained fully in the
bash manual.
Anyone used to Windows key combinations for editing text might find the
following bindings useful:
# Ctrl+Left/Right to move by whole words
"\e[1;5D": backward-word
"\e[1;5C": forward-word
# Ctrl+Backspace/Delete to delete whole words
"\d": backward-kill-word
"\e[3;5~": kill-word
# Ctrl+Shift+Backspace/Delete to delete to start/end of the line
"\e\d": backward-kill-line
"\e[3;6~": kill-line
# Alt-Backspace for undo
"\e\b": undo
Finally, a couple of bindings for convenient searching of the
command his-
tory. Just enter the first few characters of a previous
command and press
Ctrl-Up to look it up.
# Ctrl-Up/Down for searching command history
"\e[1;5A": history-search-backward
"\e[1;5B": history-search-forward
> Usually CTRL+d allows me to exit from a terminal when logged in ssh for
> instance but it doesn't work either.
That should work, unless the end-of-file character is set to something
other than ^D on the remote side.
Andy
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