you can also just use the left and right arrows keys to move the insertion point to the correct location in the command. On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Partha Chowdhury <kira.laucas@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > i use rxvt-unicode as x terminal emulator. In tabbed mode i cannot use > ctrl +left or right arrow keys to browse through words in history. i.e > commands > which take a long argument > > previously i was using fedora 10. i had asked this question in > rxvt-unicode mailing list > http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2009q2/001019.html > > and the solution described there worked in fedora 10. I also tested this > on ubuntu 9.10 and it worked. In both cases the rxvt-unicode > package was the same -9.06 > > but the above hack does not work in archlinux. Instead i find that i > have to use alt key instead of ctrl key to achieve the purpose. It > becomes annoying as the ctrl+arrow keys are used for the same purpose on > console and any other terminal emulator as i use terminator often and i > have to adjust based on circumstances. > > i took a look at PKGBUILD of rxvt-unicode and there is nothing that > could point to this anomaly. so my question is this behaviour a bug or > feature in archlinux ? >
