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How to make byobu forward-word and backward-word with CTRL+arrow?

When used in uxterm zsh is jumping words when I press ctrl+left and ctrl+right. When used in plain unconfigured byobu (tmux backend) it is not. The cursor sits there doing nothing.

I can however achieve that by using alt+b and alt+f, but I'd really like to use ctrl+arrow in keeping with general system-wide ergonomics.

Solution

  • OK, I found a workaround :

    bindkey '^[[1;5D' backward-word
bindkey '^[[1;5C' forward-word

    in ~/.zshrc

    To find out the arcane key code I had to cat -v and enter them. Gosh my productivity went up 15%.