What is the gnome-terminal ANSI escape sequence for "CTRL + arrow/s"?

The simplest way to find what are the codes of a key sequence is to use ctrl - v.

So, you type ctrl V and ctrl → to get:

^[[1;5C

Which is a way to write ESC[1;5C or \e[1;5C.

Gnome-terminal (more properly VTE) imitates some version of xterm's escape sequences. How closely it does this, depends on the version of VTE.

The relevant xterm documentation is in the PC-Style Function Keys section of XTerm Control Sequences.

What you are looking for is a string like \e[1;5D (for control left-arrow), where the 5 denotes the control modifier.

In ncurses, you can see these strings using infocmp -x, as the values for kUP5, kDN5, kLFT5 and kRIT5. For example:

    kDN5=\E[1;5B,
    kLFT5=\E[1;5D,
    kRIT5=\E[1;5C,        
    kUP5=\E[1;5A,

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