bindkey intro?

bindkey intro?

[chutzpah]

	okay, so i've been using zsh for a couple of years now, and i know that
i've been barely scratching the surface of what it (or any other shell) can
do.  so i've decided to actually dig in and start _doing_ things with the
shell, starting with bindkey, which i've seen lots about but never actually
used.
	i'm assuming that bindkey is what i would use to do the following
extremely trivial task, for example, but have no idea how to do so: i'd
like to be able to map the control+(left arrow) and control+(right arrow)
keys to the sequences "ESC-b" and "ESC-w", respectively (so that, with
VISUAL set to 'vi', they move the cursor one word to the left/right.
	so where would i go about figuring out how to do this in bindkey?  is
there a faq?  i couldn't find a man page, though that could just be the
fault of the poor man pages on my server.

	tia,
	sweth.

Re: bindkey intro?

[Matthias Kopfermann]

> i would
> like to be able to map the control+(left arrow) and control+(right arrow)
> keys to the sequences "ESC-b" and "ESC-w", respectively (so that, with
> VISUAL set to 'vi', they move the cursor one word to the left/right.
> 	so where would i go about figuring out how to do this in bindkey?  is
> there a faq?  i couldn't find a man page, though that could just be the
> fault of the poor man pages on my server.
 i don't know how to do that in command -mode, i can only try to do it
 in vi-insert-mode.
 bindkey -s "control-v and then control( pressed" "control-v ESC pressed then b" 
control-v is for quoting ESC in ed/sed/vi thinking.

 my question is, can i map commands to the so called
 command-mode or is it only possible in insert-mode for bindkey -v
?

-- 
Matthias

(this message came from Hamburg/Germany)

Re: bindkey intro?

[Matthias Kopfermann]

> 
> > i would
> > like to be able to map the control+(left arrow) and control+(right arrow)
> > keys to the sequences "ESC-b" and "ESC-w", respectively (so that, with
> > VISUAL set to 'vi', they move the cursor one word to the left/right.
>  bindkey -s "control-v and then control( pressed" "control-v ESC pressed,
  then b" 
> control-v is for quoting ESC in ed/sed/vi thinking.
wrong, Matthias! :-)
 bindkey -s does print everything to the screen.
you need to use bindkey but i don't know how to do that right now.


-- 
Matthias

(this message came from Hamburg/Germany)

Re: bindkey intro?

[Louis-David Mitterrand]

On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 01:27:04AM -0400, chutzpah wrote:
> 	okay, so i've been using zsh for a couple of years now, and i know that
> i've been barely scratching the surface of what it (or any other shell) can
> do.  so i've decided to actually dig in and start _doing_ things with the
> shell, starting with bindkey, which i've seen lots about but never actually
> used.
> 	i'm assuming that bindkey is what i would use to do the following
> extremely trivial task, for example, but have no idea how to do so: i'd
> like to be able to map the control+(left arrow) and control+(right arrow)
> keys to the sequences "ESC-b" and "ESC-w", respectively (so that, with
> VISUAL set to 'vi', they move the cursor one word to the left/right.
> 	so where would i go about figuring out how to do this in bindkey?  is
> there a faq?  i couldn't find a man page, though that could just be the
> fault of the poor man pages on my server.

bindkey "^[[32$" backward-word
bindkey "^[[33$" forward-word

the second argument being the codes sent by the key you choose. Try
CTRL-V + <your key> at the command-line to check the codes.

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     Louis-David Mitterrand
     http://www.aparima.com/F1/
     mito@aparima.com