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

[Emanuel Berg]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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, like I said :)

Linux VTs = those tty's, "the console", that appear on (the
default) shortcuts Ctrl-Alt-F1 (up to F5).

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