Zsh Keyboard Shortcuts – Fix Ctrl + Left/Right Arrow Keys Issue

With csh or any shell implementing csh-like history substitution (tcsh, bash, zsh):

!!

Then Enter.

Or alternatively:

!-1

Then Enter.

Or Ctrl+P, Enter

Magic space

Also, note that !! and !-1 will not auto-expand for you, until you execute them (when it might be too late).

If using bash, you can put bind Space:magic-space into ~/.bashrc, then pressing Space after the command will auto-expand them inline, allowing you to inspect them before execution. This is particularly useful for history expansion from a command run a while ago, e.g. !echo will pull the last command run starting with echo. With magic space, you get to preview the command before it's run.

That's the equivalent of doing bindkey ' ' magic-space in tcsh or zsh.

Gnome-terminal (more properly VTE) imitates some version of xterm's escape sequences. How closely it does this, depends on the version of VTE.

The relevant xterm documentation is in the PC-Style Function Keys section of XTerm Control Sequences.

What you are looking for is a string like \e[1;5D (for control left-arrow), where the 5 denotes the control modifier.

In ncurses, you can see these strings using infocmp -x, as the values for kUP5, kDN5, kLFT5 and kRIT5. For example:

    kDN5=\E[1;5B,
    kLFT5=\E[1;5D,
    kRIT5=\E[1;5C,        
    kUP5=\E[1;5A,