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I've added 

"\eOD": backward-word
"\eOC": forward-word

to my .inputrc to get ctrl-arrow key mappings sorted out in Cygwin allowing me to move forward and back fine.

When I SSH to any other Linux system, I lose this binding. Can anyone help?

I'm using PuTTYcyg 20101029, my terminal type is xterm, and I'm using Cygwin 1.7.9.

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This is not a programming question. Try superuser.com. – Hemal Pandya Oct 27 '11 at 12:44
did you add these changes to the remote copy of .inputrc? Good luck – shellter Oct 27 '11 at 15:33
If i add the above to the remote machine it works, but i have 50+ remote machines that i log on to with different users, that wouldn't be an easy solution for me. – nickjb Oct 28 '11 at 9:51
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It would appear that when sshing, the shell you get is run on the remote machine, so it has no access to your local .initrc. I took a quick look through the ssh man page and didn't find a way to pass args to the remote shell, but perhaps you can search for one and alias it in your .bashrc. You could also write a script to append those lines to each of the remote machines' .initrc. – Kevin Oct 28 '11 at 15:57
Thanks, i tried the same before i asked the question. There is no point fixing the remote machines because those machines change and are reinstalled regularly (test site) and also i don't want to go around modifying other machines user environments for my ease of use. I think there must be a cleaner way, i just wish i could find it. – nickjb Oct 31 '11 at 11:35
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I also don't see any way to make ssh always run commands (e.g. bind -x '\eOD':backward-word etc.) whenever you log in, if you can't depend on maintaining files such as .bashrc, .intputrc, or .ssh/rc on the remote hosts. So how about this:

function ssh ()
{
  host=$1 ; shift
  scp ~/.inputrc $host:
  command ssh $host "$@"
}

This is kludgy and it will be a little slower, but it will give you your key bindings.

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