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How to skip words in OS X terminal?

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Mar 15, 202619893 views
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Let's say I wrote a long command in the Mac OSX terminal, i.e and now I want to change the word to . To do that, right now I have to keep pressing (or hold down) the left keyboard key until the "cursor" gets to the end of the word , and then delete it. The usual 'holding down option' technique does…

Error Output

say "Hello, how are you? I am good thank you. How is it going with you? Fine, thanks"

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Fix for: How to skip words in OS X terminal?

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Command line editing is a function of your shell, not of Terminal. Probably your shell is bash and probably its command line editing style is set to “emacs”. Here are a few of the Emacs-style key combinations that you might find handy: C-a: C-e: M-f…

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