Is it possible to move between words in iTerm using Alt + Right/Left Arrows ? Now if I press Alt+Left I will get '[D' and '[C' if I press Alt+Right.
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Just adding a note for those that simply want to know if its possible to do this with some hotkeys, there is a way. If you want to map it, that's fine but in terminal, CTRL+A will go to the beginning of a line and and CTRL+E to the end. Option+Left to go the beginning of a word and then Option+right to end of a word. – aug Jul 23 at 20:10
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Go to iTerm Preferences → Profiles, select your profile, then the Keys tab. Click Load Preset... and choose Natural Text Editing.
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2This turns on word skipping, but using the cmd key, not the opt key (which is what all other apple apps use). – TheProletariat Oct 20 '18 at 1:34
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2In December 2018 on Mojave, the opt key is what moves between words after choosing natural text editing. – Rob Dawson Dec 16 '18 at 21:15
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I've been suffering for months without this but today you're my saviour. – Raimi bin Karim Mar 15 at 3:00
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3Note that this is Preferences > Profiles > Keys > Load Presets not Preferences > Keys > Load Preferences – kevin Apr 26 at 2:42
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Go to iTerm Preferences → Profiles, select your profile, then the Keys tab. Find ⌥← and ⌥→ and set them to send escape sequence b and send escape sequence f respectively.
If you use ⌘→ and ←⌘ you will need to remap the next and previous tab shortcuts which are set to those as default. Terminal uses ⇧⌘→ and ⇧⌘← for these.
You can do this under Profiles, or just globally under Keys (shown below) if you wish to set it globally. Note that settings in Profiles override global settings in Keys.
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If you use bash, you can also add
"\e\e[D": backward-word
"\e\e[C": forward-word
to ~/.inputrc.
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1This worked best for me. Trying to set it up in iTerm2 only generated
[Dor[Ceach time I tried to use the new button action. Thank you. – dgig Jul 13 '16 at 17:35 -
As far as I can tell there's nothing you can do in iTerm2 v3.0.10. It has to be this bash setup. – fiorix Oct 3 '16 at 16:32
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1Not sure about
iTerm2 v3.0.10, butiTerm2 v3.0.14definitely works with theNatural Text Editingsolution so you don't need to resort to bash input configuration. – dwanderson Feb 16 '17 at 18:45
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Go to: Preferences > Profiles > Keys
Look for the actions of ⌥← and ⌥→. They would have been mapped to: Send Hex codes
Change them to Send Escape sequence with Esc+B for backward and Esc+F for forward.
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Late in the game but for the visual:
Namely, see the Esc+ is selected.
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CMD+Delete -- Send Hex Code -- 0x15
To delete the whole line (similar to Option+U)
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For zsh I inserted in ~/.zshrc
bindkey "\e\e[D" backward-word
bindkey "\e\e[C" forward-word
for bash I inserted in ~/.inputrc
"\e\e[D": backward-word
"\e\e[C": forward-word
