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ele
ele

Reputation: 6181

In Terminal.app, option+arrow keys no longer move by word

Having done a little research on this, I know that option+left arrow and option+right arrow do not by default move by word in the OS X Terminal application. But mine did, until about a week ago.

The only thing that's changed is oh-my-zsh updated. I see that it has 

bindkey "^[[1;5C" forward-word  
bindkey "^[[1;5D" backward-word

defined but I don't know what those keys are. GitHub's last recorded change to the file was 24 days go and not related to those keys, so this must predate the latest update.

I have also tried the "Use option as meta key" option under Preferences > Settings > Keyboard. That only results in printing [D and [C when I hit option+left arrow and option+right arrow.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 11795

Answers (2)

Dzmitry Dranitski
Dzmitry Dranitski

Reputation: 659

Macos Sequoia 15.1

In my case in Terminal (and Vscode IDE integrated terminal) only Left Option + Left/Right arrow move by word, while Left Control + Left/Right arrow insert ugly ;5D and ;5C.

Here is Karabiner rule to fix that

{
    "description": "Change 'Control + Left/Right' to 'Option + Left/Right'",
    "manipulators": [
        {
            "from": {
                "key_code": "left_arrow",
                "modifiers": {
                    "mandatory": ["left_control"],
                    "optional": ["any"]
                }
            },
            "to": [
                {
                    "key_code": "left_arrow",
                    "modifiers": ["left_option"]
                }
            ],
            "type": "basic"
        },
        {
            "from": {
                "key_code": "right_arrow",
                "modifiers": {
                    "mandatory": ["left_control"],
                    "optional": ["any"]
                }
            },
            "to": [
                {
                    "key_code": "right_arrow",
                    "modifiers": ["left_option"]
                }
            ],
            "type": "basic"
        }
    ]
}

You can add this rule in Karabiner UI like that:

Karabiner settings

Upvotes: 0

rdodev
rdodev

Reputation: 3192

One way to fix your issue is to:

  • In Terminal.app > preferences > Settings > Keyboard there's a Key -> Action list.
  • In that list find or add option cursor left and option cursor right and set their values to \033b and \033f respectively.
  • Quit and restart Terminal.app

Upvotes: 18

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