{"id":4504,"date":"2019-01-30T07:28:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T03:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2019-01-30T07:28:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T03:28:32","slug":"macos-terminal-make-ctrl-left-go-to-beginning-of-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/mac\/macos-terminal-make-ctrl-left-go-to-beginning-of-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS Terminal make Ctrl-Left go to beginning of the line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In most places on macOS the Ctrl-Left key makes the cursor go to the beginning of the line. But in the terminal, when I press Ctrl-Left it puts in the following <code>;5D<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>To change this, if one is using bash, we can use the <code>bind<\/code> command. You can type bind -p to see all the keyboard bindings in bash (thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/linux.101hacks.com\/unix\/bind\/\">this blog post<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I need to map Ctrl-Left to the <code>beginning -of-line<\/code> function.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If I open Terminal and go to the Keyboard section I see Ctrl-Left is mapped as <code>\\033[1;5D<\/code>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rakhesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NewImage-18.png?resize=435%2C282&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"435\" height=\"282\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So all I need do is the following two commands (one for beginning of line, another for end).\u00a0<\/p>\n<pre>bind '\"\\033[1;5C\": end-of-line'<br \/>bind '\"\\033[1;5D\": beginning-of-line'<\/pre>\n<p>Add these to <code>.bashrc<\/code> and it\u2019s always bound in every new session.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While in the Keyboards section also tick the \u201cUse Option as Meta key\u201d. This lets you use the Alt\/ Option key in the Terminal. So I can do Alt-Left and Alt-Right to go back and forth one word.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rakhesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NewImage-19.png?resize=165%2C21&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"165\" height=\"21\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In most places on macOS the Ctrl-Left key makes the cursor go to the beginning of the line. But in the terminal, when I press Ctrl-Left it puts in the following ;5D. To change this, if one is using bash, we can use the bind command. You can type bind -p to see all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/mac\/macos-terminal-make-ctrl-left-go-to-beginning-of-the-line\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">macOS Terminal make Ctrl-Left go to beginning of the line<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[853],"tags":[845],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}