[Konsole-devel] Fwd: shift vs alt for moving [between] konsole sessions

[Aaron J. Seigo]

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On June 8, 2002 10:57 am, Stephan Binner wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > Am I correct to think that Alt-{Left,Right} is being used by konsole
> > applications and therefor cannot be used by konsole itself?
>
> Alt-{Left,Right} sends Esc-{Left,Right} which e.g. is interpreted by bash
> as "move wordwise {left,right}".

interesting... at a linux console Alt-{Left,Right} moves one VT to the 
{Left,RIght} ... how does one accomplish this "move wordwise" when using bash 
in a linux vt?

also note that Alt-{Left,Right} doesn't work here in my console, but i'm 
assuming that's because i haven't set up bash to work with Alt-{Left,Right}

> > attached is a trivial patch that fixes this inconsistency by making
> > konsole use ALT instead of SHIFT.
>
> The patch only changes the defaults, it's freely configurable for the user
> in KDE CVS. I don't know if it's more a win (consistency) or loss (user has
> to change the default as it otherwise prevents it to use certain features
> of programs) if we change this.

defaults are everything =) personally, i'd vote for consistency ... =)

take care and thanks for the reply, it was edifying...

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