Ah, my bad, I must have set that up myself. According to this[1] stack overflow post, the vim key bindings for move back and forward work by default (which is

Ah, my bad, I must have set that up myself. According to this[1] stack overflow post, the vim key bindings for move back and forward work by default (which is news to me), or you can set up the alt left and right behaviour by following the instructions here[2]. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/81272/is-there-any-way-in-the-os-x-terminal-to-move-the-cursor-word-by-word http://stackoverflow.com/questions/81272/is-there-any-way-in... [2] http://blog.macromates.com/2006/word-movement-in-terminal/ http://blog.macromates.com/2006/word-movement-in-terminal/