Ubuntu
readline6 package

  1. Bug #89235
  2. Comment #33

Comment 33 for bug 89235

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Daniel Grund (grund) wrote :

The original issue with the CTRL-LEFT CTRL-RIGHT is not a bug.

On Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS:

$ aptitude show libreadline5
Package: libreadline5
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Multi-Arch: same
Version: 5.2-11

man 3 readline:
"Readline is customized by putting commands in an initialization file
(the inputrc file). The name of this file is taken from the value of
the INPUTRC environment variable. If that variable is unset, the
default is ~/.inputrc. If that file does not exist or cannot be read,
the ultimate default is /etc/inputrc."

Thus, *deleting* ~/.inputrc solves the initially reported problem.
If one has a ~/.inputrc and wants to have system default behavior, then one also has to "$include /etc/inputrc".