[Pkg-urxvt-maintainers] Bug#684880: Bug#684880: rxvt-unicode: Peculiar CTRL-Left/Right action

[Ryan Kavanagh]

package rxvt-unicode
retitle 684880 Document Ctrl-L/R in urxvtperl(3)
tags 684880 + upstream confirmed pending
owner !
thanks

Hi Torquil,

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:58:23PM +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> Shift-Left/Right can be used to change between tabs, but it is not
> clear to me what CTRL-Left/Right is doing. Looking at the tab-bar at
> the top, CTRL-Right appears to change to the next tab, but the displayed
> contents of the terminal window actually remains the same. So when
> looking at the tab bar, CTRL-Left/Right appears to function identically
> to Shift-Left/Right, apart from the contents of the terminal not
> changing.

It appears that Ctrl-Left/Right serves to reorder tabs. For example, if
you want to move tab 3 to the left, Ctrl-Left will swap it with the tab
immediately to its left. This explains why you saw the tab numbers
change but not the window contents. Admittedly, this is very non-obvious
with only two tabs, and so should be documented. I've applied the
attached patch to the sources, which I'm forwarding upstream.

Best wishes,
Ryan

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