Textmate-like Keyboard Navigation for the Command Line?

Question

How do I better navigate the command line? In TextMate, I can do:

• CMD + ALT + ARROW to switch tabs

• CMD + SHIFT + ARROW to highlight lines of text

• ALT + SHIFT + ARROW to highlight words

• ALT + ARROW to jump words, etc.

How do I do this kind of stuff in the terminal?

Answer 1

Here's a slightly more complete mapping from Mac text navigation to the default Readline keys:

I set this up in the Keys pane of my iTerm2 preferences, but you should be able to make the same mappings in Terminal.app (Edit: Everything except the first two. Terminal.app only lets you pick from a few different keys)

Answer 2

In MacOS' Terminal app, you can change your keyboard bindings; go to Terminal Preferences (shortcut Cmd + ,) and navigate to the 'Keyboard' tab:

Key => Action
control cursor left => \033b
control cursor right => \033f

etc. You can do the same thing with other emacs-style bindings. As far as switching tabs, that's a System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts setting; click 'Application Shortcuts' on the left side, and then click + on the right to add a new shortcut. Use your desired keyboard combo and pair it with the exact menu name, which in Terminal for moving forward/backward through tabs is 'Select Next Tab' and 'Select Previous Tab' (via the Window menu in Terminal), respectively.

Does that help?