Different control sequence for Backspace and Ctrl+Backspace

[Drup]

It would be very nice to be able to define an alternative control sequence for Ctrl-backspace (as urxvt does). I'm not sure if it's a limitation of vte or not.

[caleb-]

I made a quick googling but still not sure what Ctrl-backspace really does in an urxvt.
vte could send strings to its console, but I have not tried feeding control sequence though.

[Drup]

Which control sequence urxvt sends is not important (urxvt is inconsistent in this aspect anyway), the important fact is only that it sends one that is different than backspace.

[caleb-]

So you want Ctrl-backspace to send backspace in (evil)vte?

[Drup]

That's the current behavior, and that's precisely what I don't want !

Let me show you why I want it. Here is what I have in my .zshrc :

bindkey "^[[3;5~" kill-word # ctrl+delete delete a whole word

I would like to add

bindkey "SOMETHING" backward-delete-word

with SOMETHING being a control sequence returned when I press Ctrl+backspace.

I would like alt+backspace too, btw ;)

[caleb-]

Ah, I see.
Your feature request is in my TODO list now, but I have not touched evilvte code for quite some time...:-P

[Drup]

nice, thanks.