Expand on Emacs key bindings

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Expand on Emacs key bindings #164

Closed mneilsen closed 7 years ago

mneilsen commented 7 years ago

This change adds additional key bindings for C-right and C-left's behavior of jumping the cursor forward or backward one word:

M-f and M-right: jump forward
M-b and M-left: jump backward

Additionally, variations of the above were added to delete words forward and backwards; see kill_word and backward_kill_word. The following bindings were added.

M-d: delete forward one word
M-backspace: delete backwards one word

hannesm commented 7 years ago

thanks!

hannesm commented 7 years ago

out of curiousity, which terminal emulation do you use? The M-d and M-backspace does not seem to work in my xterm (I suspect notty needs to be extended for this)?

mneilsen commented 7 years ago

I've tested (with positive results) iTerm2 and Terminal.app in MacOS and urxvt in Linux.

Based on your comment, I fired up xterm and also noticed that M-d and M-backspace do not work as expected. Furthermore, M-f and M-b are misbehaving here as well.