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I usually use CTRL+Left and CTRL+Right to navigate between words on the command-line. I switched my laptop on this morning and can no longer do that. Instead, the CTRL+Left input code gets printed in the terminal.



Ie: Here's my output when I try to navigate with CTRL+Left:



~ $ test test ;5D;5D;5D


Curiously, I can still use CTRL+Left/Right just fine in VIM.


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Open ~/.inputrc file and add the following lines:



# mappings for Ctrl-left-arrow and Ctrl-right-arrow for word moving

"e[1;5C": forward-word

"e[1;5D": backward-word


Close and reopen shell.Now you should be able to use those keys.



Reasons for this behavior ? Not quite certain. For some reason or the other your bash stopped reading /etc/inputrc file, but it should be reading the one in your home folder


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