Comments on: word movement in mac os x terminal (bash) — ctrl-left and ctrl-right

By: matt

matt — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:15:42 +0000

\033b, \033f — thanks!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:53:23 +0000

as Ludvig said, it is ESC-f and ESC-b , not 33f and 33b, but thank you, this is awesome!

By: David Doran

David Doran — Sun, 08 May 2011 16:54:34 +0000

Thanks. Just got a new Macbook Pro and I had to find how to enable ctrl-left and ctrl-right again.
I was one of those people going character-by-character for years!

David.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:38:19 +0000

you’re the man, thx

By: mark

mark — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:05:45 +0000

update on the last post, got it working with these more verbose instructions, cheers for the tip!

http://notes.timeghost.net/2010/01/option-arrow-cursor-movement-in-terminal.html

By: mark

mark — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:55:40 +0000

Must be a n00b mistake, but I’m getting the literal text inserted into the shell http://grab.by/6gEq

I have this working using Alt + F and Alt + B by enabling ‘Use option as meta key’, but would prefer to use the arrows.

By: yalestar

yalestar — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:34:37 +0000

Another vote for hero status… as a recent Linux to Mac convert, this was driving me BATTY. Until I found this post, that is.

By: Ludvig A. Norin

Ludvig A. Norin — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:24:47 +0000

You Rock. To all people that, like us, tolerated the behaviour for years and years, thinking that, well, tomorrow I’ll look it up and fix it: unlearn the ESC+b and ESC+f “shortcuts”, change the preferences and be done with it! Next time I’m in , remind you to get you a beer.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:46:32 +0000

So funny — that’s exactly what I did. Tolerated the frustration for literally years! And it was so easy to change, I’m kicking myself for not having done it sooner…

By: Christopher Dwan

Christopher Dwan — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:30:04 +0000

I think you’re my new hero… For some reason I kept engaging in this stupid behaviour: I would bring up an old command that I had typed in wrong into the terminal and go back one character at a time to the spot I needed to fix. Every time I said to myself. “I know there’s a better way, I really need to look that up”. I had a significant amount of time to think about it too as I slowly crawled backwards towards my typo.

Thanks Matt!