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From: andrewt@WATSNEW.WATERLOO.EDU (Andrew Thomas)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: ^ word designator
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Date: 14 Jun 89 16:19:22 GMT
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> >
> >It would be nice if the key binding mechanism was able to cope with
> >the escape sequences generated by arrow keys.
> 
> The patches I posted added this capability.  I talked to Brian about it, and
> they might be in 1.00, though the way I did it isn't really "right" (I should
> have used indirected keymaps to allow binding to multi-character strings,
> but took the easy way out.  Hey, it works for me.).

I have been using bash since 0.87, and have never had a problem with
binding the arrow keys.  My arrow keys produce the following escape
codes (vt220 terminal):
	up arrow	ESC [ A
	down arrow	ESC [ B
	right arrow	ESC [ C
	left arrow	ESC [ D
my .inputrc looks like this:

Meta-[:		prefix-meta
Meta-A:		previous-history
Meta-B:		next-history
Meta-C:		forward-char
Meta-D:		backward-char

I haven't figured out how to bind the vt220 function keys which
generate sequences like 'ESC [ 1 7 ~' and 'ESC [ 1 8 ~'.  It just
occurred to me that this is what this discussion is really about.

Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu	Systems Design Eng.	University of Waterloo