Use Ctrl + Left/Right to move forward/back one word in tmux within Mobaxterm

Question

When using tmux within Mobaxterm, Ctrl + Left/Right just moves the cursor forward/back one character, not one word.

In the following cases, Ctrl + Left/Right does behave as expected:

• in bash within Mobaxterm
• in screen within Mobaxterm
• in tmux within Cygwin
• in screen or bash within Cygwin

So it seems to be an issue only when combining tmux with Mobaxterm.

In all cases, I am ssh-ing to a remote linux machine, within either Cygwin or Mobaxterm. My /etc/inputrc is set as it should for the shortcuts to work.

Any clue?

Answer 1

Old question. But in case someone find his way here. This is sgzmd's answer:

Edit your ~/.tmux.conf and add lines:

set-window-option -g xterm-keys on

If you don’t want to make it permanent just yet, do:

C-b :set-window-option xterm-keys on

Reload your config in tmux by doing:

C-b :source-file ~/.tmux.conf

It worked for me.

original answer here