A really nice quality of life improvement you can make in Terminal.app: map Option-Backspace to ^W
(Control-W, or \027
) so that pressing it in the shell will delete one word to the left, like most other MacOS apps:
![Key mapping preference pane within Terminal, with a new key mapping with the delete key and option modifier sends control W as text](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/25293/2023/screenshot-2023-07-22-at-9.31.33-am.png)
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A really nice quality of life improvement you can make in Terminal.app: map Option-Backspace to ^W
(Control-W, or \027
) so that pressing it in the shell will delete one word to the left, like most other MacOS apps: