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burgerbrain - You're right in that I use many of these terms literally interchangably.

You're right about ctrl+arrow being a bash feature (confirmed using xterm) - thanks!

What I was trying to get across in the article is that the entire emulator/shell/tty is a package and people are quite particular about theirs.



It is possible with xterm by the way, just in a different way (escape-f or escape-b).




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