Timeline for What's the shortcut to delete a word "forward" in a unix terminal?
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| Dec 1, 2018 at 18:00 | history | edited | Kusalananda♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | edited body |
| Dec 1, 2018 at 16:02 | comment | added | neverMind9 | Both Esc+D and Alt+D work in xfce4 terminal 0.6.3. | |
| Jun 11, 2018 at 8:07 | comment | added | Jozef Legény | You can check the "use option as meta" in the terminal Keyboard preferences to make it work. | |
| Sep 25, 2017 at 20:51 | comment | added | Kusalananda♦ | @StéphaneChazelas Yes, they (the two keycombos) have a different view of what constitutes a "word". | |
| Sep 25, 2017 at 20:47 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | Only in zsh though does Meta-D delete the same type of word that Ctrl-W does (blank delimited ones). In bash in vi mode, you can use dW to delete those | |
| Sep 25, 2017 at 20:34 | history | edited | Kusalananda♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 79 characters in body |
| Sep 25, 2017 at 17:34 | history | answered | Kusalananda♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |