How do I make option+left/rightarrow move the cursor one word at a time like in Terminal?

[Michael Marotta]

I use option+left/rightarrow in Terminal to move my cursor around quickly (one whole word at a time) but in iTerm it prints [D and [C. I went to Preferences>Profiles>Keys and tried deleted the option+arrows key combo, setting it to 'ignore', setting it to 'do not remap', changing the option key to meta or escape mode, and nothing changes, it still spits out [D. How do I get this to work like the normal mac cursor move for Terminal and all other text programs? 

[Michael Marotta]

If there is no way is there some faster way to move the cursor around? When I have a very long command with many parameters it takes forever to arrow through it to edit something in the middle or beginning. Option+arrowing makes this so much faster. 

[Pelle Johansson]

Hi,

you're looking for the "Left option key acts as +Esc" option, under "Keys" in the profiles. Or you can add mappings just for the arrow keys, but you will have to figure out the escape codes in that case.

Regards,

Pelle

[Pelle Johansson]

Sorry that was wrong, all you need to do is bind it.

bind '"\e[1;9D": backward-word'

bind '"\e[1;9C": forward-word'

Not sure exactly how Terminal.app does it.

[Rainer M Krug]

Use .inputrc

I have the following in my ~/.inputrc

,----

| # See https://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/Keybindings for details

| 

| # Unicode I/O

| set input-meta on

| set output-meta on

| set convert-meta off

| 

| # Word jumping with CTRL left/right

| "\e[1;5D": backward-word

| "\e[1;5C": forward-word

| 

| # Line limits jumps SHIFT CTRL left/right

| "\e[1;6D": end-of-line

| "\e[1;6C": beginning-of-line

`----

I don't know where the wiki with the details is after the googlecode

shutdown.

Hope this helps,

Rainer

[Michael Marotta]

Pell, when you say I need to bind it how exactly do I do that? Is this something I do on the Keys preference page? ie Do I double click it and select one of the actions (Send Text?) and paste the whole bind line in? Or am I misunderstanding what to do with these. 

[Per Johansson]

Hi,

You type it in the shell.

If you want to save it permanently, do like Rainer said, and put it in .inputrc in your home folder (note that you skip the bind keyword and the single quotes there).

Regards,

-- 

Per Johansson

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[Michael Marotta]

Ah, thanks!