Re: [Bug-readline] add control-arrow bindings

[Per Bothner]

On 03/10/2017 08:31 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:

> > They might even work on Mac OS, though the modifier key needed might be
> > different.
>
> No, I tried all of these long ago.  There is basic consistency across
> terminal emulators when using opt-arrow (control-arrow is a system key
> binding that switches virtual desktops), and none of Terminal/iTerm/aterm
> /xterm output any of those key sequences.

What key sequences does opt-left emit?  Is it some variation of "\e[1;MD"
for some value of "M"?

Maybe you can conditionalize readline so the default binding bound to 
backward-word
is opt-left on Mac and control-left otherwise.
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