Raymond Yang

Introduction

Move cursor in a long command is painful. It’s time to say bye bye to moving letter by letter. Let’s see ways how to manipulate it more efficiently.

Keys

⌃A

Use Ctrl + A and go to the start of the command

^E

Use Ctrl + E and go to the end of the command

⌥B

Use Alt + B and move word by word back

⌥F

Use Alt + F and move word by word forward

^K

Use Ctrl + K and delete to the end of line

^U

Use Ctrl + U and delete to the beginning of line

Make option as meta (MAC OS only)

In the preference of terminal or iTerm, set option as meta key to use it as Alt.

iTerm2

Go to preference->profile->key

Terminal

Go to preference->Profiles->Keyboard