Setting bindkey for "cd ../"

Question

In tcsh, how to set bind-key for general command like cd or ps ?

I was trying bindkey "^G" "cd ../../" I get error Bad Command name: cd

I have looked at few online example. Its working when I want to do something, history search forward or end of line. But I want to do it for some other common command which I execute thousands of time in given day. e.g I use CD or ps command very often. I wanted to set bindkey for such commands ?

Duplicate of : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1912328/how-to-map-delete-and-end-keys-on-tcsh-shell — Arnaud F., Mar 28 '17 at 04:48
Possible duplicate of [How to map Delete and End keys on tcsh shell?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1912328/how-to-map-delete-and-end-keys-on-tcsh-shell) — Arnaud F., Mar 28 '17 at 04:49
Nope. My questions is not duplicate. I have already visited above link. Its not helping me to solve my question. — Nikhilesh Sarish Kulkarni, Mar 28 '17 at 18:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '17 at 18:47

You can use the -c flag when setting bindkeys for external commands. For instance: bindkey -c "^]^d" "ls /" will bind Ctrl+]+d to spit out the contents of the root directory.

In your case:

 bindkey -c "^G" 'cd ../../'

One caveat here is that your shell prompt may not update upon execution via the bindkey. So you will have traversed your two parent directories, but your shell prompt may still indicated that you are sitting in the directory from which you used the bindkey, even though you aren't.

Thanks. Its working as you told. Can we do some trick to update prompt ? I was trying to set prompt to cwd along with cd ../../ but its not updating. — Nikhilesh Sarish Kulkarni, Mar 28 '17 at 21:24

Setting bindkey for "cd ../"

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