Ctrl + Left/Right key doesn't jump by word

[David Houston]

Out of Byobu, holding ctrl + lift or right allows to to jump the cursor per word. But in Byobu it outputs '5C' to the console instead of jumping to the end of the word.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Hello,

Thanks for the report.

Unfortunately, I'm not able to reproduce this behavior on the latest version of Byobu.

From a bash shell prompt, I can type something like:
kirkland@x200:~$ one two three four five

And use ctrl-<left> and ctrl-<right> and move back and forth among the words.

A few questions for you:
 1) What version of byobu are you running? byobu -v
 2) Can you start from a pure, default byobu environment? Move your ~/.screenrc and ~/.byobu out of the way, and then launch 'byobu'. You should then have a clean, default configuration. Now try those keys.

[jack46 (jack46)]

Hi

There is some confusion now, I think

I reported on 16.10.2009 "New question #86024 on byobu:"

Normally <C-Left> goes 1 word left, both on command line and in vim.
Within screen the command line is OK. In vim however it deletes then next 5 lines,
 whereas not in screen it does the normal 1 word left movement. Same goes for <C-Right>

You seem to have tried on the command line, which never was a problem.

Answers to your questions
1)
byobu -v
byobu version 2.38
Screen version 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06

2)
It still eats my lines when in vim!

Regards, Jack

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Okay, Jack, thanks for the info. I was able to reproduce this problem in screen (without byobu), thus, I'm reassigning the bug there. Perhaps someone with more screen knowledge than I can help triage this bug.

Thanks!