Windows 7, msys bash input problem

[Robin Watts]

Gents,

I've been using your excellent msysgit on windows XP for ages, and
having just moved to windows 7, I've set it up again. While I was
installing it, I decided to try and tweak the command line editing
behaviour of the shell so that Ctrl-left and Ctrl-Right move backwards
and forwards by a word at a time (to match the windows command prompt,
as scrolling around a char at a time can be SLOW in long command lines).

Supposedly I can do this by editing the inputrc file, and indeed
following the advice I found here:

http://www.genmaint.com/msysgit-bash-how-to-enable-ctrlleft-right-arrows.html

I thought I had it working - but it seems that Ctrl-Left/Right give the
same codes as normal Left/Right under msys bash for me.

Is this something that can be fixed? Is this even under your control? Am
I raising this in the right forum?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Robin

[Kirill]

Hi,

Below is not the answer that you're looking for, but a workaround.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Robin Watts wrote:
> decided to try and tweak the command line editing behaviour of the shell so
> that Ctrl-left and Ctrl-Right move backwards and forwards by a word at a
> time (to match the windows command prompt, as scrolling around a char at a
> time can be SLOW in long command lines).

Until you find the answer, you can use Alt+F and Alt+B to move by words.

--
Kirill.

[baldrick]

Robin,

Changing ~/.inputrc worked for me ... contents of mine are:-

"\e[C": forward-word
"\e[D": backward-word

Although reloading .inputrc using ^X^R didn't work ... starting a new
shell did.

Regards,
Gavin.

[eze...@gmail.com]

The problem here is that, as msysgit gives the same codes for Ctrl+Left Arrow/Right Arrow as for just Left Arrow/Right Arrow. 

Thus, changing ~/.inputrc means now it's always on "move word by word" mode, even when you're trying to move character by character (without Ctrl pressed).

Any updates on this?