Keybinds for cursor movement shortcuts for the terminal

[mikeymop]

I am using ghostty, with zsh, and oh-my-posh, on gnome.

I noticed that when pressing ctrl + <-- (left arrow), the terminal inserts a control sequence instead of moving the cursor left by one word boundary.

I have looked through the action sets available but the only cursor related entry I could find was cursor_key which I dont think is applicable.

Overall I am wanting to setup traditional cursor movement shortcuts (similar to "Natural Text Editing" in iTerm2. Or that you would have available in non-vim, gui editors.

eg:

ctrl + <-- : move cursor left by one word boundary
ctrl + --> : move cursor right by one word boundary
ctrl + home : move cursor to the top (scroll_to_top?)
ctrl + end : move cursor to bottom (scroll_to_bottom?)
etc

[00-kat]

This should be bound in your shell (not a Zsh guru so can't help here, but I'm certain the internet and documentation would get you there), but if you really want to do it in Ghostty,

keybind = ctrl+left=esc:b
keybind = ctrl+right=esc:f
keybind = ctrl+home=esc:<
keybind = ctrl+end=esc:>

These will only work if your shell uses Emacs (default) input, and not if you change it to Vi mode.
Some shells (e.g. Fish) bind some of those by default too.

ctrl + home : move cursor to the top (scroll_to_top?)
ctrl + end : move cursor to bottom (scroll_to_bottom?)

scroll_to_top and scroll_to_bottom scroll the scrollback up and down, not move the cursor.

[mikeymop]

Thanks for the hint!
I resolved by adding the following to my .zshrc

bindkey "^[[1;5C" forward-word  # ctrl + ->
bindkey "^[[1;5D" backward-word # ctrl + <-
bindkey '^[[H' beginning-of-line # replace ctrl + a cursor start of line
bindkey '^[[F' end-of-line # replace ctrl + e cursor end of line