Mapping in my vimrc fails in Ubuntu

Question

I want to map ctrl-tab to :tabn, and ctrl-shift-tab to :tabp.

I had it working for gVim in Windows XP, but moved it to my .vimrc in Ubuntu 9.10 and it doesn\'t work

Answer 1

I used the blog and wiki posts from @nfm's answer and solved it:

Put this in your .Xresources file (you can copy-paste in this case):

xterm*VT100.Translations: #override \
             Ctrl ~Shift Tab: string(0x1b) string("[27;5;9~") \n\
             Ctrl Shift Tab: string(0x1b) string("[27;6;9~")

Then do cd ; xrdb .Xresources and restart xterm.

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Put this in your .vimrc:

!! Important - instead of XXXX you must type CTRL-V and then Esc OR copy-paste the whole text and run %s/\(set =\)XXXX/\=submatch(1) . "\33"/g which is copy-pastable (insert it with +).

set timeout timeoutlen=1000 ttimeoutlen=100
set =XXXX[27;5;9~
nnoremap  gt
set =XXXX[27;6;9~
nnoremap  gT

And restart vim.

Done.