Option-Delete In Terminal

One of my favorite tricks in editing text is to use the Option key as a modifier. Using the Option key along with arrows allows you skip whole words. Best yet, Option-backspace will delete the entire word behind the cursor; Option-delete will delete the entire word ahead. It annoys me to no end that this behavior doesn't carry over into the Terminal.

Ah, but it does! I mentioned this codepoet, and he said his worked, but he couldn't remember what, if anything, he did to enable it. There are no options to be found that explicitly state this function, but there's something close. Go to Window Settings under the Terminal menu and select the Keyboard pane. Look for Use option key as meta key and enable it. Among many other things, Option-delete will now work just like it does everywhere else.

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