irssi keybinding: backward_word/forward_word

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Published on 2012-11-28T09:51:48Z Indexed on 2012/11/28 11:06 UTC
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I'm currently experimenting with irssi as my irc client of choice and I'm getting along pretty well.

BUT there is one thing I still need to get done. Somehow it isn't possible for me to use the usual CTRL+Left/Right to navigate between words in my input line.

For the record: I'm using irssi on a linux-box through a screen session brought to my windows machine via ssh/putty.

I already tried some key binding in irssi, maybe I did them wrong?

/bind meta-n backward_word
/bind meta-m forward_word

both work fine. But neither

/bind ^left backward_word
/bind ^right backward_word

nor

/bind cleft-left backward_word
/bind cleft-right backward_word

work for a CTRL+Left/Right setup.

Any Ideas?

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