14 Input

At various times ratpoison will prompt you for input. Ratpoison sports a fully featured line editor. The following table lists the keystrokes and actions:

<C-g>

<escape>

abort the command requesting input.

<C-f>

<right arrow>

move forward a character.

<C-b>

<left arrow>

move backward a character.

<M-f>

move forward a word.

<M-b>

move backward a word.

<C-a>

<home>

move to the beginning of the line.

<C-e>

<end>

move to the end of the line.

<C-d>

<delete>

delete the character at point.

<M-d>

delete the word at point.

<backspace>

delete the character before the point.

<M-backspace>

delete the word before the point.

<C-k>

delete from the point to the end of the line.

<C-u>

delete from the point to the beginning of the line.

<C-y>

Yank the text from the X11 cut buffer.

<C-p>

<up arrow>

Cycle backwards through the history (This command does nothing if ratpoison was configured with the --disable-history configure option).

<C-n>

<down arrow>

Cycle forwards through the history (This command does nothing if ratpoison was configured with the --disable-history configure option).

<return>

submit the line of text.

<tab>

complete the text up to the point or if there are several possible completions, cycle through them. This only works in certain contexts. Tab completion will complete a shell command, a window name, a group name, and colon commands in their appropriate context (i.e. when being asked for a window name).

<S-iso-lefttab>

This is shift + tab by the way. This does the same as tab, but cycles backwards through the completions.

All input is stored in the same history list. By default ratpoison has a history length of 100 entries. This history is saved to the file ~/.ratpoison_history and is loaded when you start ratpoison. This means your history sticks between sessions. This assumes history has not been disabled on compilation.