Re: [Help-nano] Color Syntax Highlighting on Solaris 8 shows up as white and grey

[David Ramsey]

On 4/17/07, Garth Dahlstrom <address@hidden> wrote:
> I should mention that ctrl+left and ctrl+right just go left and right 
> 1 char with the setup below using PuTTy...

Thanks for the info, but that's actually how they're supposed to work.  
This is (a) so that you can hit a control character sequence, and then 
move the cursor without letting go of the Control key, which some people 
find useful; and (b) 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...

> I guess those key combos only work under xfce in Linux like the 
> release note said.

And, as it turns out, under KDE's konsole, which uses the same escape 
sequences for Ctrl-[arrow key], but doesn't seem to generate anything 
for Shift-[arrow key].  They may also work under gnome-terminal, since 
it uses the same underlying library as Xfce's Terminal, but I haven't 
tested it because I'd have to build all of GNOME before I could.