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Modify cursor movement keys in Terminal
Authored by: bomolub on Aug 24, '06 11:43:54AM

In my Terminal Inspector, I checked "Use option key as meta key". Then I edited the key mapping for the del key to \004 (type control-d). I added a new key mapping for del using a key modifier of option and set this to \033d (type escape d).

Now the del key deletes forward by character, option-del deletes forward by word. Also backspace (or delete key) deletes backward by character and option-backspace deletes backward by word.



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Modify cursor movement keys in Terminal
Authored by: davconvent on Sep 29, '06 02:14:22AM

Can you tell me how you modified the option-backspace mapping? backspace doesn't show up in the list of modifiable keys in the small window for adding/editing a key mapping (OS X 10.4.7).



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