Comment 18 for bug 355883

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Thomas Dickey (dickey-his) wrote : Re: [Bug 355883] Re: Jaunty: CTRL-LEFT and CTRL-RIGHT do not work in zsh

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Bernhard wrote:

> @Thomas: I have since configured my terminal via shell settings. The
> desired behaviour should be default though, especially for "out-of-the-
> box" Ubuntu.

Doing that would break existing applications (those that use
the terminal description from ncurses and xterm, for example),
and would introduce sequences which correspond to those already
sent by other combinations. (It's likely that some other users
of Ubuntu would object to this).

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