I agree that Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right are more customary for moving forward/backward by 1 word, and Fish should be usable on the console. That should be the default key combo on Fish.
I don't see the argument against Alt+Up, Alt+Down for moving through history words. Philip On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:49 PM, James Bowlin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
