[Nano-devel] Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right revisited

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hi,

A year ago I tried to get Ctrl+Left to go to the preceding word and 
Ctrl+Right to the next, but didn't succeed.  Even with David's help 
it didn't work.

This time around I put some print statements into the code, and saw 
that Ctrl+Left and Right never even reach get_escape_seq_kbinput().  
With an 'fprintf(stderr, "BAD KEY: 0x%x ", input);' stuck in after 
the "Unknown command" message in nano.c, those two key combinations 
print 'BAD KEY: 0x203' and 'BAD KEY: 0x205' when running on an 
xterm or a Konsole.  When simply running 'cat' those combinations 
produce the normal '^[[1;5D' and '^[[1;5C' sequences, but when 
'nano' is running they apparently produce different codes.

So with attached patch applied, finally Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right do 
what I want them to do (except that Ctrl+Left doesn't work on the 
status line.)  This is of course not a proper addition: it simply 
replaces the existing two key combinations instead of adding two 
alternative ones, but this latter change is beyond me.

Regards,

Benno

nano--control-cursor-Konsole.patch
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