Moving the Cursor in OSX's CLI

Posted on: 2011-05-16 20:58:33

Just found this "great little article over at superuser.com":http://superuser.com/questions/131938/how-to-skip-words-in-os-x-terminal about how you can use meta-b and meta-f to use backwords and forwards by words in the CLI. Since there is no meta key, you have to use ?-b and ?-f (escape as meta).

Optionally, you can set the option key as meta in Terminal's settings:

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