Moving efficiently in the CLI

Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by acomjean on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:42PM (#16243129)

I use cntr -a cntrl e all the time.

I use the default mac terminal. I was excited because I'm always forward and backing up in previous commands.

But alas... Alt F and Alt B just print characters (ƒ∫). I tried to see if there was a configuration I could set, but to no avail. Maybe I need a better terminal.

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by em500 on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:00PM (#16243245)

The configuration is in Terminal Preferences -> Keyboard -> Use Option as Meta key

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by acomjean on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:18PM (#16243368)

That works. Thanks! though you have to set it for each terminal type. (I use 3 colors...). It was a little annoying but done.

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by 32bitkid on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:51PM (#16243175)

Try: `esc F` and `esc B` instead of alt.

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by Lxr on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:03PM (#16243263)

Highly, highly recommend iTerm2, it’s a great piece of software and there’s really no reason to use the default terminal over it.

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by rthille on Friday January 26, 2018 @07:29PM (#16244062)

This would be a reason why: https://danluu.com/images/term-latency/idle-terminal-latency...

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by jlgaddis on Saturday January 27, 2018 @12:05PM (#16246921)

There was also the passwords issue discussed here a while back.

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by base698 on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:00PM (#16243244)

Set option to meta in your terminal preferences.

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by bobwaycott on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:46PM (#16243155)

iTerm handles Alt+f/b correctly.

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