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I have recently gotten a system 76 gazelle lap top with ubuntu 12.10. So far a I very happy except with one feature. I am use to

ctrl+e for end of line.

ctrl+a for beginning of line.

These work on the bash shell command, but not on other applications such as, sublime text 2 gedit, and in a search window on firefox. (In these ctrl-a seems to "select all" and "ctrl-e" does no seem to do anything). Since this occurs in several applications I assume that some global setting is involved. (What thats the place of these is "End" and "home" on the keypad.)

I use sublime text 2 on anther machine and having these differing key bindings is making me a bit nuts.

I know "set -o vi" and "set -o emacs" set the keyboard bindings in the bash shell and am assuming that there is on a line or two of code that is read upon startup that will fix this. Can anyone offer advice?

And I apologize if this has been answered before, but was not able to find the answer online.

Best wishes, Ralph Howard

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With gnome-tweaks you can set, via Keyboard & Mouse, the "Emacs Input".

This changes Ctrl+A to "begin-of-line" and Ctrl+E to "end-of-line" (and other stuff too).

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Changing CTRL-A conflicts with pretty much every application out there, because it's the standard select all keyboard shortcut, so I don't think that is possible with any GUI applications.

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  • Thanks for the information. I will see if I can just to the change inside of sublime text. Apr 29, 2013 at 20:27

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