On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Daenyth Blank<daenyth+arch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:23, Partha Chowdhury<kira.laucas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> you have to use alt+arrow keys instead of ctrl key. >> > > There's no way to set it to use ctrl? Hmm, how odd... It works on > ubuntu, but I can't figure out why. Might be related to inputrc. Can you compare /etc/inputrc on both platforms? What does C-v,C-left and C-v,C-right output in bash on each platform?