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Why is Ctrl-Arrow not working in bash on OS X?

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Mar 15, 202611445 views
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I use Ctrl-← and Ctrl-→ on every Linux system I work on, but these key combinations don't work in bash on my Macbook Pro. It is running Snow Leopard, and I'm using the built in Terminal application. The key combinations don't seem to be captured by anything before or by Terminal, because if I ssh t…

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OS X uses emacs key binding my default. This is true is virtually every application on OS X, it's rather nice. It means things like C-a and C-e are beginning/end of line. You also get the nifty backward-word-kill with M-backspace, oh, and kill-line …

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