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.
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 option is not present in the last Iterm2 v.3.0.3. Under 'Load Preset' I only have factory defaults. – Innokenty Jul 1 '16 at 8:37
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6"Natural Text Editing" is available under Profile > Keys as a preset, but not under the global Keys settings. – Nick Sep 4 '16 at 22:14
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For some reason I don't know. This doesn't work for me, still getting the strange symbols. Thanks though – coffekid Dec 6 '16 at 18:59
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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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4Important: you also need to go to Profiles > Keys and unbind same combinations there! Because this setting in profile is stronger and overrides the keys settings in the original answer. – Innokenty Jul 1 '16 at 8:36
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2@Innokenty The screenshot (edited into my answer by another user) does not follow the steps I describe in the words above it (written by me), the latter of which match what you suggest – grg♦ May 6 '17 at 16:38
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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Not 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
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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This solution is better, than the accepted answer due to the reasons I've put in a comment on the latter. – Innokenty Jul 1 '16 at 8:39
CMD+Delete -- Send Hex Code -- 0x15
To delete the whole line (similar to Option+U)
Late in the game but for the visual:
Namely, see the Esc+ is selected.
