i have the inputrc from baselayout-1.12.10-r4 which includes "\e[5C": forward-word which is not recognized by the new vte and thus i can't jump word backward in mcedit, control+left_key in dosemu. other keys are also broken, like shift+down in mcedit. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.upgrade to vte-0.16.0 2.open an xterminal or gnome-terminal 3. open mcedit file 4. press control+left_key
Created attachment 119458 [details] emerge --info
forward-word and backward-work don't work for me even in bash with vte-0.16.5 :( I'll take a closer look at this when I have the rest of gnome 2.18 installed - if someone manages to figure this one out earlier, I would appreciate
Seems to be a regression from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337252 and it's reopened and regression is discovered in later comments. Meanwhile alt+left/right arrow works for backwards/forwards-char in bash (readline?) but doesn't help for mcedit.
(In reply to comment #3) The patch from comment #12 in that bug fixes the same issue I was having in VIM with control+cursor keys.
Upstream patch added to 0.16.6-r1.
This patch doesn't seem to fix ctrl+left/right arrow cursor movement in readline/bash for me, which is the most major regression in my book for 0.16. Reopening for more research on this. Will try with 0.16.7 release soon.
it fixes control+left/right, shift+down/up, shift+F5 for me, thanks.
(In reply to comment #7) > it fixes control+left/right, shift+down/up, shift+F5 for me, > thanks. In where does it fix control+left/right for you? I think I get it fixed in things like midnight commander that are in the mode where you can't scroll back (alternative mode I think), and it doesn't work for bash, where alt+left/right work. I'm starting to get the impression that's how it is supposed to work and it just happened to also work with ctrl+left/right in bash before by accident in gnome 2.16 or something like that. So original report seems to be handled indeed, with mcedit shift+down and ctrl+left in mcedit and vim working.
fist i tested it in mcedit, now i looked at it in bash, and it's strange: control+left jumps a word backward, but control+right does not jump a word forward. indeed, alt+right/left works in bash as expected.
The whole thing'd hit the stable gentoo. Solution for bash mcedit etc: put these things in your /etc/inputrc next to gnome-terminal section about (escape + arrow key) "\e[1;5C": forward-word "\e[1;5D": backward-word Hope this fix hits ebuilds soon as well (thread on this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4115692-highlight-.html)
C'mon, guys, my baselayout's just gotten updated today to 1.12.9-r2, and /etc/inputrc again got dispatch-conf`ed to the one _without_ essential lines "\e[1;5C": forward-word "\e[1;5D": backward-word So when are you going to inject this thing into portage?
base-system, what's your view on this?
people seem to be confused about inputrc. it is merely a configuration file. it is not required whatsoever for proper behavior on a system. the *defaults* in it are there *only* as a convenience. the file is intended for modification and customization *by end users*. i could just as soon as not add any lines at all to the file and make users uncomment them *as they want*. this is exactly what many other distributions do. claiming that the existence (or lack) of any line in /etc/inputrc as a bug is incorrect.
closing fixed per upstream status bug and comment from base-system. If you want customization of /etc/inputrc, please contact baselayout maintainer. Thanks for reporting.
