From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Terminology: Alt-Backspace doesn't work
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 22:05:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbo75x4j.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14698.1411896958@thecus.kiddle.eu> (Oliver Kiddle's message of "Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:35:58 +0200")
Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
Hi Oliver,
>> 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.
Thought so.
> It may be that Terminology can be confiured: xterm lets you do that
> with X resources.
Um, how would I know? As far as I can see, there's not much
documentation available at its web page...
> Or you may find another key combination that can be configured:
> Alt-Left and Ctrl-W are common choices for that.
Yeah, sure. But since I'm used to Emacs, I'd prefer to keep the emacs
style key bindings in ZSH.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-28 20:05 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
2014-09-28 20:05 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
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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