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Bind Ctrl+Right to nextword in nano (as it is in all other apps)

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And likewise Ctrl+Left to prevword. I read the man page of nanorc and found

bind key function menu

So the line bind ^Left prevword main would be what I want, the problem is that nano only accepts

an alpha character or the word "Space"

so Left doesn't exist.

Is there a way to accomplish this? Right now I'm on natty (nano 2.2.2) but I will upgrade nano if a later (devel?) version can do this.

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answered 1 Year ago breadoules · Accepted Answer

Sadly, I don't think this is possible. I've found a thread where a nano developer said:

Hi, I've searched high and low trying to find out if it's possible to
navigate through the text with CTRL left/right-key to jump word by
word...

Unfortunately, no. Meta-Space and Ctrl-Space are the only keys to do
that. This is because in text mode, there's no way for nano to tell
the difference between Ctrl-Left and Left and between Ctrl-Right and
Right.

On another, he added:

because I figure that nano should work the same way under both X
terminals and the console, and I have yet to find a console that can
distinguish between [arrow key] and Ctrl-[arrow key]. I do wish that
wasn't the case...