I use tabbed terminal emulators in X and I also often make use of the virtual consoles in Linux (ctrl-alt-F[1-6]). AFAIK, the normal key combo for changing to the next/prev virtual console is alt + left/right arrow. Because of this I make all my tabbed terminal emulators use this key combo as well for switching between terminal tabs.
I've tried other solutions but one problem is that if I'm trying to fix someone else's Linux machine and I'm in the virtual consoles, then I get confused unless I'm used to using alt + left/right arrow for switching vconsoles on my machine. IMO, the binding in fish of alt + left/right arrow for directory history and moving forward and backward one word should be changed to ctrl + left/right arrow. Inside of X-windows, it doesn't make much difference but I do think ctrl + arrow is more natural for moving by words. All the problems come in the vconsoles. Normally alt + arrows are bound to switching vconsoles so not only do those combos fail to do what is expected in fish (dir history or move one word) they do something very unexpected: they change the vconsole. The problem in the vconsoles is that unless we run loadkeys (as root) alt + arrows changes vconsoles and all other $meta + arrow combinations do the same thing as the arrow keys alone. So with a default setup ctrl + arrows will also be broken in the vconsoles but not nearly so broken as alt + arrows. If we are willing and able to run loadkeys as root then we can map ctrl + left/right to alt + b and alt + f which are also mapped to the prevd-or-backward-word and nextd-or-forward-word commands which makes ctrl + left/right work in the vconsoles. That is how my machine is configured now. Bottom line: I think the default alt + left/right bindings should be changed to ctrl + left/right and alt + left/right should be unbound. While this would still be broken OOTB in the vconsoles, it is less broken. Further, it is easily fixed by running loadkeys as root without disrupting the normal use of alt + left/right to change vconsoles. Peace, James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
