I'm not sure what you're suggesting here. It's up to the process running in Terminal.app to support the key sequences sent to it. I doubt that M-f would work i

I'm not sure what you're suggesting here. It's up to the process running in Terminal.app to support the key sequences sent to it. I doubt that M-f would work if your shell (bash, zsh, etc) were in Vi-mode rather than the default of Emacs-mode.