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[pyre]

Most shells default to emacs keybindings:

  C-a beginning of line
  C-k kill text from cursor to end of line
  C-e end of line
  M-b move cursor backwards by a word
  M-f move cursor forwards by a word
  C-w delete backwards by a word
  C-h backspace (great when real backspace doesn't work)
  C-r reverse search through command history

(C-w works in Vim(insert mode) and Emacs, but kills me when I try to type it in a browser window to delete a word... Good-bye window and/or tab)

In zsh I actually have M-w bound to the normal backspace-by-a-word and C-w bound to the vim version which will do things like count '/' as a word separator so that I can easily backspace through sections of a path rather than be required to delete the whole thing (or nothing).

[BrandonM → pyre]

> (C-w works in Vim(insert mode) and Emacs, but kills me when I try to type it in a browser window to delete a word... Good-bye window and/or tab)

Control-Shift-T usually solves that problem for me in Firefox.

[xenophanes → pyre]

Hmm, FYI most of those work in the safari reply box. I think Apple put them for all Cocoa text fields not just terminal :-)

[uxp → xenophanes]

> I think Apple put them for all Cocoa text fields not just terminal :-)

It is the NSTextField that accepts those commands. The prefix NS stands for NeXTSTEP, so the functionality existed long before Cocoa.

[pyre → xenophanes]

Yea, but you have to hit Ctrl+Option or Cmd+Option (can't remember which off the top of my head) for Meta though, instead of just Option (which is what most people bind to Meta in Terminal.app or iTerm.app).