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Should you have to define your own bindings for these escape sequences you could do so with With argument ARG, do this that many times.Īs long as TERM is set to xterm the above bindings should work automatically in Emacs. Move backward until encountering the beginning of a word. runs the command backward-word, which is an interactive To verify Emacs is picking up the correct keys you can also try C-h k for Describe key followed by the key combination. Now, with paredit turned off, try C-left and C-right, which should most likely move a word at a time left and right respectively. Open up a new terminal window and then open emacs at the terminal with emacs -nw. Check Control-arrow bindings within Emacs These are not quite sufficient, but before we go any futher, let’s make sure we can get these to work in Emacs. It will also define Shift arrows and Control-Shift arrows, but we don’t care about those at the moment. This will map C-up, C-down, C-right, and C-left to send the following escape sequences: The easiest way to get started is select Load Preset… > xterm Defaults.

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For the arrow key fixes though you will need to add a series of key shortcuts. While you are here verify you have Left Option and Right Option as +Esc. Select Profiles > Open Profiles… from the menu bar, or press Command-O and take a look at the default profile. You can also fix this however for Terminal.app or the original iTerm.

First, I suspected that Control arrow combinations were not being sent properly by my terminal, in my case iTerm2. Today I decided to get to the bottom of this problem at any cost.

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To get paredit to work properly I kept switching to Cocoa Emacs (in case you didn’t know, you can install Cocoa emacs with brew install emacs -cocoa if you are using “homebrew) ) Especially when working with ( which frequently involves the use of C-left, C-right, C-M-left, C-M-right and less frequently of M-up and M-down. One problem that has plagued me until today though has been the lack of proper Control and Meta arrow combinations when working at the terminal. I prefer to use Emacs in a full-screen terminal window. Emacs + paredit under terminal (Terminal.app, iTerm, iTerm2)

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