Problem with Ctrl-Left/Right bindings in oh-my-zsh

Question

For some reason I am unable to bind Ctrl-Left Arrow and Ctrl-Right Arrow to move between words in ZSH after installing oh-my-zsh on my MacBook Pro.

In iTerm2 I have my keybindings configured to "Send Escape Sequence" [1;5D and [1;5C, which worked before installing oh-my-zsh.

I also tried uncommenting

bindkey '^[^[[C' emacs-forward-word
bindkey '^[^[[D' emacs-backward-word

in ~/.oh-my-zsh/lib/key-bindings.zsh, also to no avail. In both scenarios, hitting Ctrl-Left/Right just sends "5D" and "5C" to the screen.

TLDR: Has anyone gotten Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right to move between words when using oh-my-zsh?

Answer 1

So you have your terminal emulator sending one CSI sequence (ESC+[+1;5C) for the key, but you've told your shell with the bindkey command to watch the terminal input for a different CSI sequence (ESC+ESC+[+C), and you are wondering why this doesn't work?

It doesn't work for the very obvious reason.

Answer 2

Change your bindkey lines to:

bindkey '^[[1;5C' emacs-forward-word
bindkey '^[[1;5D' emacs-backward-word

Answer 3

This one worked for me:

bindkey "[C" emacs-forward-word   #control left
bindkey "[D" backward-word        #control right

In fact, I pressed Control+left and Control+right between the "" and that did the magic.