Option+arrow / Command+arrow in Terminal

Question

Hello,
I'm using quite often the those two key combination to skip respectively a word or go at the end/beginning of a line.
I'm also using terminal quite often (my Linux part ;)) but those combination don't work there and I have the use the [bash-like shortcuts|http://www.ice2o.com/bashquickref.html]. Note that all of them don't work such as move fwd/back one word.
Any idea how to make option/command+arrows work ?
Thanks,
Tex

Answer 1

Any idea how to make option/command+arrows work ?
You can see whether option-arrow and command-arrow generate anything that bash can work with using the following:
cat -v
no press the keys you hope bash will see.
When I played with this, I say that option-arrow generated a different escape sequence from just arrow keys.
But command-arrow up/down affected scrolling into the saved previous screen info. command left/right did nothing.
For the option-arrow keys you could create a set of bash bind commands in your .bash_profile to remap that escape sequence into the bash commands that do what you want.
For Command-arrow you would need to use a hotkey mapping utility that translates command-arrow into the bash commands you desire.
And yes, you should pursue terminal and bash questions in the Unix forum as suggested.