Macos – How to let Ctrl + Page Down switch tabs inside Vim in Terminal.app

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When running vim inside the Terminal in Ubuntu, I can use Ctrl + Page Up or Page Down to switch between the vim tabs. How do I set up this for Terminal.app or iTerm2 for Mac OS X? I have a Macbook Air (2011) so I don't have 'proper' Page Up and Page Down keys, if that matters.

I have tried to set up various escape codes, but so far nothing works.

EDIT: I don't have privs to answer my own question, but here is the answer:

ANSWER:

I found the correct escape sequences.
In Terminal.app's keyboard settings,

set "control page up" to "send string to shell:", with this value: "\033[5;5~"

set "control page down" to "send string to shell:", with this value: "\033[6;5~"

Best Answer

If you don't have actual pageup and pagedown keys on your keyboard there is no way to map these to anything.

<C-PageDown> is an alternative to :tabnext, :tabn and gt.
<C-PageUp> is an alternative to :tabprevious, :tabN and gT.

I strongly suggest you use gt and gT instead, they follow Vim's grammar (lowercase letter for "forward commands", uppercase for "backward commands") and so are very easy to memorize.

If you don't like gt/gT you can map them to something more to your taste:

nnoremap <C-Up> gT
nnoremap <C-Down> gt

But I don't think it's necessary.

Your example (a PageUp/PageDown-less keyboard) seems to be a rather nice example of the intelligence of Vim's seemingly weird design decisions.

--EDIT (as per the asker's request)--

I found the correct escape sequences. In Terminal.app's keyboard settings,

set "control page up" to "send string to shell:", with this value: "\033[5;5~"

set "control page down" to "send string to shell:", with this value: "\033[6;5~"

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I just tried this under Snow Leopard and it worked beautifully:

Open System Preferences => Keyboard
Go to Keyboard Shortcuts
Click on "Application Shortcuts" on the left
Click the little "+" to add a program
Navigate to Terminal (it's hidden in Applications/Utilities)
For the Menu Title type "Show Next Tab" or "Show Previous Tab" ("Select Next Tab" and "Select Previous Tab" for Mavericks or older) (Also, these items will be different for languages other than English.)
For the Keyboard Shortcut type Ctrl-Tab or Ctrl-Shift-Tab
Click Add. You are g2g!

Mac – get ubuntu terminal to send an escape sequence (control+shift+up)

Ubuntu uses GNOME and gnome-terminal. According to its documentation (in version 2.30), CtrlShiftUp and CtrlShiftDown are used for navigating the scrollback buffer, and there doesn't seem to be any way to turn this "feature" off (aside from modifying the source code of vte, the terminal library).

To patch vte on Ubuntu 10.04:

Rebuild vte, the terminal emulation library:

Install software required for compiling:

sudo apt-get install git-core fakeroot
sudo apt-get build-dep vte

Download vte source code and apply the patch:

cd /tmp
git clone git://gist.github.com/771667.git patches
apt-get source vte
cd vte-0.23.5
patch -p1 < ../patches/vte-0.23.5.patch

Make a Debian package and install it:

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
sudo dpkg -i ../libvte9_0.23.5-*.deb

Close all gnome-terminal processes.
Enjoy -- until the next vte update...

Patch for 0.23:

diff -ur vte-0.23.5/src/vte.c vte-0.23.5+patched/src/vte.c
--- vte-0.23.5/src/vte.c    2010-01-14 02:46:18.000000000 +0200
+++ vte-0.23.5+patched/src/vte.c    2011-01-09 15:19:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -4948,26 +4948,6 @@
            }
            break;
        /* Keypad/motion keys. */
-       case GDK_KP_Up:
-       case GDK_Up:
-           if (modifiers & GDK_CONTROL_MASK 
-                            && modifiers & GDK_SHIFT_MASK) {
-               vte_terminal_scroll_lines(terminal, -1);
-               scrolled = TRUE;
-               handled = TRUE;
-               suppress_meta_esc = TRUE;
-           }
-           break;
-       case GDK_KP_Down:
-       case GDK_Down:
-           if (modifiers & GDK_CONTROL_MASK
-                            && modifiers & GDK_SHIFT_MASK) {
-               vte_terminal_scroll_lines(terminal, 1);
-               scrolled = TRUE;
-               handled = TRUE;
-               suppress_meta_esc = TRUE;
-           }
-           break;
        case GDK_KP_Page_Up:
        case GDK_Page_Up:
            if (modifiers & GDK_SHIFT_MASK) {

Patch for 0.26:

diff -ur vte-0.26.2/src/vte.c vte-0.26.2+patched/src/vte.c
--- vte-0.26.2/src/vte.c    2010-11-13 14:18:41.000000000 +0200
+++ vte-0.26.2+patched/src/vte.c    2011-01-09 15:06:54.870000002 +0200
@@ -5153,26 +5153,6 @@
            }
            break;
        /* Keypad/motion keys. */
-       case GDK_KEY (KP_Up):
-       case GDK_KEY (Up):
-           if (modifiers & GDK_CONTROL_MASK 
-                            && modifiers & GDK_SHIFT_MASK) {
-               vte_terminal_scroll_lines(terminal, -1);
-               scrolled = TRUE;
-               handled = TRUE;
-               suppress_meta_esc = TRUE;
-           }
-           break;
-       case GDK_KEY (KP_Down):
-       case GDK_KEY (Down):
-           if (modifiers & GDK_CONTROL_MASK
-                            && modifiers & GDK_SHIFT_MASK) {
-               vte_terminal_scroll_lines(terminal, 1);
-               scrolled = TRUE;
-               handled = TRUE;
-               suppress_meta_esc = TRUE;
-           }
-           break;
        case GDK_KEY (KP_Page_Up):
        case GDK_KEY (Page_Up):
            if (modifiers & GDK_SHIFT_MASK) {

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