{"id":308,"date":"2013-04-26T16:24:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T21:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/installingcats.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2013-04-26T16:24:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T21:24:45","slug":"bash-move-jump-word-forward-backward-iterm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/2013\/04\/26\/bash-move-jump-word-forward-backward-iterm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bash move-jump word forward backward iTerm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In bash terminal, to skip forward or backward whole words you need to send meta + f and meta + b, but Mac&#8217;s don&#8217;t have alt keys, rather option.<\/p>\n<p>iTerm allows you to change option to meta under profiles (or globally in Keys). \u00a0Change option key to meta shown below and you&#8217;ll be able to use Option + left-arrow and Option + right-arrow to skip jump backward and forward whole words within your bash terminal.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Option - Meta key iTerm\" href=\"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/iterm-skip-word-meta-1100-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-310\" title=\"iTerm option-key to meta\" src=\"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/iterm-skip-word-meta-600-1.jpg\" alt=\"iTerm option-key to meta\" width=\"600\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/iterm-skip-word-meta-600-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/iterm-skip-word-meta-600-1-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In bash terminal, to skip forward or backward whole words you need to send meta + f and meta + b, but Mac&#8217;s don&#8217;t have alt keys, rather option. iTerm allows you to change option to meta under profiles (or globally in Keys). \u00a0Change option key to meta shown below and you&#8217;ll be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[230,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}