From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Terminology: Alt-Backspace doesn't work
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:35:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14698.1411896958@thecus.kiddle.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761g8cfpw.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org>
Tassilo Horn wrote:
>
> E.g., in urxvt or gnome-terminal, Alt-Backspace results in the shell
> receiving the key "^[^?". In terminology, Alt-Backspace gives "^H"
> (which is Control-Backspace with urxvt/gnome-terminal).
>
> Is this a known issue or is there some config option that I need to
> change?
It's a Terminology issue rather than a zsh one. Zsh only gets a ^H and
has no further information.
It may be that Terminology can be confiured: xterm lets you do that with
X resources. Or you may find another key combination that can be
configured: Alt-Left and Ctrl-W are common choices for that.
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-28 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-28 8:27 Tassilo Horn
2014-09-28 9:35 ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2014-09-28 20:05 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-09-28 20:24 ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-09-28 20:38 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-09-28 20:26 ` Tassilo Horn
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