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Tuesday 30 December 2008

Mac OS X Terminal.app Keybindings

I have previously mentioned this page in a previous post. I had not realised that ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict only applies to programs using standard Cocoa AppKit text edit objects.

Well I created this ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict so some home end keys would work for those applications.
/* ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict */
{
"@\UF702" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; /* cmd-left = start of line */
"@\UF703" = "moveToEndOfLine:"; /* cmd-right = start of line */
}

The Terminal.app (found in /Applications/Utilities/) has its own keyboard settings in its preference menu.
escB - move left one word
escC - move right one word (and uppercase first character, lowercase every thing else)
escF - move right one word
esc[H - move to beginning of the line
esc[F - move to the end of line
esc sequence is \033 press ESC to insert the escape sequence.


To view other terminal key bindings just take a look at the output of
$infocmp -L

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