This is a sad confession: Since buying my first mac in 2001 I have lived without the ability to move back and forward a word in the terminal. This was something I did all the time when working on Linux. It’s such a nice thing to be able to do.

Enough of my crying. It only took a short amount of googling to find how to do this with Leopard’s terminal:

http://blog.macromates.com/2006/word-movement-in-terminal/ also has a tip for mapping control-left to beginning of line and control-right to end of line. Making the terminal act more editor like.

Glad that’s over with.

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