[Solved] Urxvt, vim and ctrl + arrow keys

I just switched to rxvt-unicode - mostly because of its ability to set the WM_CLASS variable (Xfce's terminal, my previous terminal application, was unable to do so, and I was tired of dragging all my apps to the virtual desktop I wanted to have them on). So far so good, but I bumped into a problem I knew from a previous encounter with urxvt: it maps ctrl+left/right differently than xterm (and Xfce's terminal), and I can't jump words in Vi anymore.
I have been trying to map them in my ~/.virc to reproduce the behaviour, but that's not working (and I'm clueless why). This is the excerpt from .virc:
map ^[Oc W
map ^[Od B
map! ^[Oc ^[Wa
map! ^[Od ^[Ba
Ctrl+Left generates ^[Od, Ctrl+Right generates ^[Oc. Vi will put itself in insert mode (if it isn't already) when i press those combinations and insert a d or c, depending on the combination pressed, but no jumping words.
Does someone know what I'm doing wrong?

@ davvil & hbekel: Awesome, I'll try that when I get back home and report .
skottish wrote:
The solution that RedHat uses is to modify /etc/inputrc. I assume that means that ~/.inputrc can be used also. These are the two lines that they added in the rxvt section for Ctrl <Right, Left>:
"\eOc": forward-word
"\eOd": backward-word
Skottish, I already have those in my ~/.inputrc. The thing is, I understood /etc/inputrc and ~/.inputrc are used by readline and apps using it, but vim is not one of them. Those sequences make Ctrl+Right/Left work like in xterm and similar terminals (Xfce's terminal e.g.) - you can jump words - but Vim won't pick it up, since it doesn't use readline.

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