Re: Help with setting a key (C-<right> moving a full word to the right)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:06:34 +0200
> 
> > (global-set-key [C-right] (quote forward-word))
> 
> That doesn't work for me. When I press C-right, only <right> is
> reported. I'm using GNU Emacs 23.4.1 in a Linux VT.

I don't know what is a "Linux VT", but I suspect that it's a text-mode
terminal.  In which case Emacs simply doesn't get reported that
C-right was pressed.  Try "C-h l" (that's the letter ell, not the
digit one), and see if Emacs at all sees the Ctrl modifier.  It
doesn't in most text terminals.