When using vim with screen the keys ctrl + right and ctrl + left don't work

Question

In the last days i became very addicted of using the combination terminator (in full screen) + screen + vim. But i'm having problems with the ctrl + right and ctrl + left key mappings, they are erasing text instead of jumping words. I already checked and it works as expected when using only terminator and vim.

Somebody know how to fix this issue?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

It's probably due to TERM being set to screen. If using bash, try:

export TERM=xterm

before running vim.

Note this might have other consequences, so you might want to try other terminals if that's the case.