iTerm 2 How to set keyboard shortcuts to jump to beginning end of line

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I can see that Ctrl left right jumps to the beginning end of line  How to change this to Cmd left right arrow   In order to get Alt left right arrow working correctly for word jumping follow this article

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I used Travis answer and I created a dynamic profile you can import based on its instructions   GabLeRoux iterm2-macos-dynamic-profile  Instructions are in the readme and it s a lot faster to import this than it is to add them all manually  I made this an answer as per  gooli s request because this was hidden in a comment  Hope you enjoy this

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The old fashion emacs bindings can still work in iterm2 and os x terminal   Preferences -  Profiles -  Keys  sub tab in profiles    Set Left Right option  lt kbd gt   lt  kbd gt  key acts as  Esc  similar in os x terminal    This should enable alt-f and alt-b for moving words by words   Still ctrl-a and ctrl-e always work as usual   If set as meta those old bindings will work while some iterm2 bindings unavailable

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I see there s a lot of good answers already  but this should provide the closest to native OSX functionality as possible in more than just your shell  I verified that this works in ZSH  Bash  node  python -i  iex and irb pry sessions  using rb-readline gem for readline  but should work for all   Open the iTerm preferences     and navigate to the Profiles tab  the Keys tab can be used  but adding keybinding to your profile allows you to save your profile and sync it to multiple computers  and keys sub-tab and enter the following  Delete all characters left of the cursor     Delete Send Hex Codes  0x15 More compatible  but functionality sometimes is to delete the entire line rather than just the characters to the left of the curser  I personally use this and then overwrite my zsh bindkey for  U to delete only stuff to the left of the cursor  see below   or 0x18 0x7f Less compatible  doesn t work in node and won t work in zsh by default  see below to fix zsh  bash irb pry should be fine   performs desired functionality when it does work   Delete all characters right of the cursor    fn  Delete or   Delete  Send Hex Codes  0x0b  Delete one word to left of cursor     Delete Send Hex Codes  0x1b 0x08 Breaks in Elixir s IEX  seems to work fine everywhere else or 0x17 Works everywhere  but doesn t stop at normal word breaks in IRB and will instead delete until it sees a literal space   Delete one word to right of cursor    fn Delete or   Delete  Send Hex Codes  0x1b 0x64  Move cursor to the front of line      Send Hex Codes  0x01  Move cursor to the end of line      Send Hex Codes  0x05  Move cursor one word left      Send Hex Codes  0x1b 0x62  Move cursor one word right      Send Hex Codes  0x1b 0x66  Undo    z Send Hex Codes  0x1f  Redo typically not bound in bash  zsh or readline  so we can set it to a unused hexcode which we can then fix in zsh      Z or   y Send Hex Codes  0x18 0x1f  Now how to fix any that don t work For zsh  you can setup binding for the not yet functional    Delete and     Z   y by running    changes hex 0x15 to delete everything to the left of the cursor    rather than the whole line   echo  bindkey  quot  U quot  backward-kill-line   gt  gt     zshrc    binds hex 0x18 0x7f with deleting everything to the left of the cursor   echo  bindkey  quot  X  x7f quot  backward-kill-line   gt  gt     zshrc    adds redo   echo  bindkey  quot  X   quot  redo   gt  gt     zshrc    reload your  zshrc for changes to take effect   source    zshrc  I m unable to find a solution for adding redo in bash or readline  so if anyone know a solution for either of those  please comment below and I ll try to add them in  For anyone looking for the lookup table on how to convert key sequences to hex  I find this table very helpful

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To jump between words and start end of lines in iTerm2 pick one of the two solutions below  1  Simple solution  recommended   Open Preferences Click  quot Profile quot  tab Select a profile in the list on the left  eg  quot Default quot   and click  quot Keys quot  tab Click the  quot Presets quot  dropdown and select  quot Natural Text Editing quot     2  Mapping keys manually  Advanced  If you don t want to use the  quot Natural Text Editing quot  preset mentioned above  you can map the keys you need manually   Open Preferences Click    Keys    tab Click the     icon  You can now add the following keyboard shortcuts  Move cursor one word left  Keyboard shortcut        Action  Send Hex Code Code  0x1b 0x62   Move cursor one word right  Keyboard Combination        Action  Send Hex Code Code  0x1b 0x66  Move cursor to beginning of line  Keyboard Combination        Action  Send Hex Code Code  0x01  Move cursor to end of line  Keyboard Combination        Action  Send Hex Code Code  0x05  Delete word  Keyboard Combination       Delete Action  Send Hex Code Code  0x1b 0x08  Delete line  Keyboard Combination       Delete Action  Send Hex Code Code  0x15  Undo  Keyboard Combination      z Action  Send Hex Code Code  0x1f  Don t forget to remove the previous bindings   Open the    Profiles    tab Click the sub-tab    Keys    Remove the mappings for key combinations       and

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Follow the tutorial you listed above for setting up your key preferences in iterm2    Create a new shorcut key  Choose  Send escape sequence  as the action Then  to set cmd-left  in the text below that      Enter  H for line start OR Enter  F for line end

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Add in iTerm2 the following Profile Shortcut Keys     FOR ACTION SEND          quot SEND HEX CODE quot  0x01        quot SEND HEX CODE quot  0x05        quot SEND ESC SEQ quot  b        quot SEND ESC SEQ quot  f     Here is a visual for those who need it

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As Explains in here  you can do it with a simple steps      By default  word jumps  option     or    and word deletions  option     backspace  do not work  To enable these  go to  iTerm   Preferences     Profiles   Keys   Load Preset      Natural Text Editing   Boom  Head   explodes

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The only things that work for for moving to the beginning and end of line are      SEND ESC SEQ  OH - to move to the beginning of line     SEND ESC SEQ  OF - to move to the end of line

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Just to help out anyone that is having the same issue but specifically using Zsh shell with iTerm 2  It turns out that Zsh doesn t read  etc inputrc properly  and so fails to understand any key bindings you set up through the preferences   To fix this  you need to add some key bindings to your  zshrc file  such as     key bindings bindkey   e 1   beginning-of-line bindkey   e 4   end-of-line   Note the backslashes in the example above before the  e   the linked article does not show them  so add them into your  zshrc file when adding bindings

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For quick reference of anyone who wants to go to the end of line or start of line in iTerm2  the above link  http   hackaddict blogspot com 2007 07 skip-to-next-or-previous-word-in-iterm html notes that in iTerm2    Ctrl A  jumps to the start of the line  while Ctrl E  jumps to the end of the line

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In iTerm 3 0 12 you can switch to Natural Text Editing preset          iTerm   Preferences   Profiles   Keys   Warning As it is a preset  it can override the keys you have binded before  So it s better to save your current key bindings before applying a preset

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explained in https   aaronaddleman com articles hexcodes-and-iterm   you can use xxd -psd to get key hex code

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bind -p will show a list of bound escaped keys in your shell  that might help giving you more ideas   search terms

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For me  the following combination worked     Key       Action                 Esc     End result    -----------------------------------------------------         Send Escape Sequence   a       Send    a           Send Escape Sequence   e       Send    e

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