On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Darryl Hamilton wrote: > What I'm wanting to do is bind ctrl-left-arrow to backward-word and > ctrl-right-arrow to forward-word (Bash 3.1, Emacs mode). I use this (~/.inputrc): # move per-word with CTRL-left/right arrows "\eOc": forward-word "\eOd": backward-word Does that work for you? -- David.