On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Daenyth Blank<daenyth+arch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:24, Aaron Griffin<aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> 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? Actually, I just noticed these are in our stock /etc/inputrc too "\e[5C": forward-word "\e[5D": backward-word "\e\e[C": forward-word "\e\e[D": backward-word "\e[1;5C": forward-word "\e[1;5D": backward-word So I have a suspicion that my guess was wrong. You aren't using vi mode in bash, are you?