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For example in my .Xresources I have a line URxvt.keysym.Control-Left: \033[1;5C. I don't know very well what \033[1;5C means, but by having bindkey "^[[1;5C" forward-word in my .zshrc it allows me to walk left a word in terminal which is useful.

Because I use vim, I wanted to map ctrl+w to delete a "word" and ctrl+shift+w to delete a "WORD". If I add URxvt.keysym.C-W: something in .Xresources , pressing ctrl+shift+w will write something. What can I put in that something? I'm thinking maybe I should put some symbols like \033[1;5C so I can refer to them in .zshrc, but I don't know what those symbols mean and don't want to bind some wrong key combination and press it by accident.

So what does something of the form \033[1;5C mean and where can I read about it? And what can I put so it doesn't conflict?

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It has no meaning for rxvt/urxvt, but is copied from xterm's alt/meta key definitions. In that context, it means controlRight-cursor:

 Code Modifiers ---------+--------------------------- 2 | Shift 3 | Alt 4 | Shift + Alt 5 | Control 6 | Shift + Control 7 | Alt + Control 8 | Shift + Alt + Control 9 | Meta 10 | Meta + Shift 11 | Meta + Alt 12 | Meta + Alt + Shift 13 | Meta + Ctrl 14 | Meta + Ctrl + Shift 15 | Meta + Ctrl + Alt 16 | Meta + Ctrl + Alt + Shift ---------+--------------------------- Key Normal Application -------------+----------+------------- Cursor Up | CSI A | SS3 A Cursor Down | CSI B | SS3 B Cursor Right | CSI C | SS3 C Cursor Left | CSI D | SS3 D -------------+----------+-------------
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