⌥⌫ to delete word

[erusev]

It'd be great if ⌥⌫ deleted a word the same way it does basically anywhere on MacOS where you can edit text.

[casr]

C-w is usually delete word backwards in a lot of terminal programs so one option is to retrain your muscle memory

⌥⌫ might work on macOS either because of your terminal emulator sending through the right escape sequence or because of a patched readline library. Try checking in the options to see what escape sequence it is mapped to so that it might be added.

[erusev]

I use the Natural Text Editing preset in iTerm2 - it sends a hex code - 0x1b 0x7f:

Note that ⌥⌫ does work as expected in fzf.

C-w is usually delete word backwards in a lot of terminal programs so one option is to retrain your muscle memory

Unfortunately, most text editors (including the text area I'm typing in right now) don't support C-w, which makes ⌥⌫ really hard to not use.

[xeruf]

I also use Alt-Backspace as I did in fzf :)