[arch-general] C-> and C<- does not work in urxvt in tabbed?mode - archlinux specific

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:15 PM, clemens
fischer<ino-news at spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> wrote:
> On Mon-2009/08/10-19:58 Daenyth Blank wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:24, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>
>>> If you like these, you can stick them in ~/.inputrc for your user
>>> account. It works for any app using readline.
>>
>> I added those to my ~/.inputrc, but it's still not working. Is there
>> anything I have to do aside from opening a new terminal?
>
> Of course you have to find out which keys to bind in the first place,
> and if they are rebound some place else.
>
> Do "cat<LINEFEED>" and type the keys you want, they should display as
> "funny" strings.  "^[" is an escape, readline wants "\e" or "\M" or
> "Meta" for that.  "man 3 readline".

C-v also works in bash to echo the exact keypress. So C-v,C-left and
C-v,C-right will give you the right keypresses