Re: Binding left and right arrow keys

[Peder Stray]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Dave Wood wrote:

> On (21:14 21/12/08), Peder Stray <address@hidden> put forth the 
> proposition:
> > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, William Pursell wrote:
> >
> > > Dave Wood wrote:
> > > > What is the correct syntax to bind left and right arrow keys? I tried 
> > > > e.g.:
> > > >
> > > > bind left prev
> > > > bind ^left prev
> > > >
> > > > But these give errors when starting screen (something about ^x?)
> > >
> > > Here's what I have in my .screenrc:
> > >
> > > # Make the arrow keys switch between screens
> > > bindkey -k kr next
> > > bindkey -k kl prev
> > > bindkey -k -a kr next
> > > bindkey -k -a kl prev
> >
> > I use the following:
> >
> > # C-left and C-right
> > bindkey "\033[1;5C" next
> > bindkey "\033[1;5D" prev
>
> Thanks. These work but I have found a problem with some applications 
> where it seems an application's keybinds override those of screen - mutt 
> and vim in insert mode don't allow these binds to work. Is there some 
> way of forcing screen binds to work no matter which application is 
> running?
>
> I tried unbinding left and right in mutt but it didn't work.

try the same lines but add -a, maybe that helps...

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  Peder Stray