Not sure that I have seen this one before - I discovered it quite by accident. Typing option-G in the terminal will move the cursor back one word and option-F will move it forward one word.
This come in particularly handy when you have entered a line of text in the terminal that has wrapped to several lines. Try the old option-click on that and see what happens ... it reverts the command back some distance into the history as far as I can tell. Not sure exactly what happens, but I do know it deletes what you had typed in. Up until discovering the above key commands I was using the arrow keys to go back and forth.
If anyone else knows any more terminal key cmds - lets hear them....
[Editor's note: I thought we had published something on this subject before, but I can't seem to find it this morning ... so hopefully, this isn't a repeat hint!]
This come in particularly handy when you have entered a line of text in the terminal that has wrapped to several lines. Try the old option-click on that and see what happens ... it reverts the command back some distance into the history as far as I can tell. Not sure exactly what happens, but I do know it deletes what you had typed in. Up until discovering the above key commands I was using the arrow keys to go back and forth.
If anyone else knows any more terminal key cmds - lets hear them....
[Editor's note: I thought we had published something on this subject before, but I can't seem to find it this morning ... so hopefully, this isn't a repeat hint!]
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