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I recently discovered that sending \033[5D and \033[5C sends the character to move a full word at a time, making mac os x terminal almost as awesome as the default ubuntu and debian terminals.
So then, the one thing I'm missing is: the control key to bind option-delete and option-backspace to deletion of full words.
Control-/ is not a part of the set of standard control codes. It is not directly representable as a keystroke in many terminal emulations. Such a keystroke is only properly detectable in certain platform-specific “scancode modes” or “GUI mode” (where the API tells you exactly which keys and modifiers are being used). Your terminal emulator is beeping because it is effectively an invalid keystroke.
The standard control codes only cover “Control” versions of
@ A–Z [\]^_ (ASCII 0 - 31), and? (ASCII 127)In most terminal emulator programs running with most US key layouts you may need to press Shift to generate some of the “Control codes”:
@ is Shift2)^ is Shift6)_ is Shift-)? is Shift/); C-? is usually generated by either Backspace (on Apple keyboards, the key labeled just “delete” without the additional symbol ⌦) or Delete (the one with ⌦ on Apple keyboards).In tty-based Emacs, you can usually use C-_ for undo instead of C-/.
You might want to take a look at iTerm2, where you can set the word delimiter in the preferences. I'm a recent convert myself and like it a lot better than Terminal.app. There's a special Terminal.app keyboard shortcut compatibility set to make switching easier.
Best Answer
~/.bash_profile).If you choose to use ⌥ as meta-key, ⌥+backspace will work immediately, though this setup might break special characters you can only input by pressing ⌥ together with them (depending on your keyboard layout). If you don´t use that, you can delete by pressing esc and than backspace.
For forward-deleting a whole word, use either ⌥+D or esc and than D.