Subj : Re: archic character in inputrc
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Geoffrey King
Date : Fri Jun 18 2004 12:29 am

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:25:43 -0700, Niy wrote:

> "\e[1~": beginning-of-line
> "\e[4~": end-of-line
> "\e[5~": beginning-of-history
> "\e[6~": end-of-history
> "\e[3~": delete-char
> "\e[2~": quoted-insert
> "\e[5C": forward-word
> "\e[5D": backward-word
> 
> 
> what does those "\e[1~", "\e[5D" mean?  where
> I can find relevent document?

They appear to be Ansi escape code sequences.

http://www.bluesock.org/~willg/dev/ansi.html

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