Re: Problem with GNU Screen when using control + right/left arrows

[Thor Andreassen]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 06:34:44PM -0700, Makmiller Martins Pedroso wrote:

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> I've been having the following problem with GNU Screen. I like using
> Ctrl + left/right arrows to move between words but it sometimes
> doesn't work if I'm within GNU Screen. More specifically, I noticed
> the following:
> 
> *1.* When I'm at the terminal prompt inside of GNU Screen, I can move
> between words using Ctrl + arrows without any problem. However, if I
> call Emacs (with the command "emacs-snapshot-gtk -nw"), and I press
> Ctrl-<right> I get the characters "5D." I get the characters "5C" when
> I press Ctrl-<left>.

I can reproduce this behavior, it seems there is some issue with the
terminfo character translation. Don't know how to resolv this the proper
way, but changing the TERM in emacs' env to help, e.g. run emacs like
this:

TERM=xterm emacs -nw somefile

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HTH
Thor