I have been a long time user of the standard Mac Terminal. Decided to experiment with iTerm2 after hearing good things about it from my colleagues.
One of the more useful features I am seeing on iTerm2 is its split panes (much like vim split buffers).
In vim, I can move between split buffers using Ctrl+W+arrowkeys. Is there a keyboard shortcut for iTerm2 to move between panes as well?
From the documentation:
Cmd] and Cmd[ navigates among split panes in order of use.
Cmd+opt+←/↑/→/↓ navigate similarly to vim's C-w hjkl.
⌘+⌥+←/↑/→/↓ will let you navigate split panes in the direction of the arrow, i.e. when using ⌘+D to split panes vertically, ⌘+⌥+← and ⌘+⌥+→ will let you switch between the panes.
there is configuration in the following way:
Preferences -> keys -> Navigation shortcuts
the 3rd option: shortcut to choose a split pane is "no shortcut" by default, we can choose one
cheers
I was using Terminator before, so I found it convenient to re-map Alt + arrow-key to switch between the panes. This can be done in Preferences -> Keys -> Key Mappings - press the '+' button to add a mapping. Also, in my case such a mapping was already defined in Profiles, I simply removed it.
Spanish ISO:
⌘+⌥+[ goes left top
⌘+⌥+] goes bottom right
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I have two editors opened, one on the left and one on the right. How to switch between them? I tried Ctrl + 1/2/3 but doesn't work.
It works, using the 1, 2 keys above the letters (not the keypad). Events in the keyboard shortcuts panel are under workbench.action.focusFirstEditorGroup and so on.
You can also bind commands such as workbench.action.navigateRight and so on to move focus between panels.
Ctrl+Shift+P show all commands, search Preference: Open Keyboard Shortcuts and open it, then you can search the action or shortcuts.
for this problem,searchfocusFirstEditorgroup,you can see the shortcut,change as you like.then searchfoucusSecondEditorGroup and so on.
I wonder, why doesn't xCode "act" as a normal editor? For example, when I press Ctrl+X, I'd like the current line to be copied-cut. When I press Shift+Tab I'd like the current selection to be shifted to the left, etc. That's the stuff most editors do by default.
How to make it do that?
Take a look at Preferences -> Key Bindings. Here you get a list of actions and their keyboard shortcuts - and you can change those keyboard shortcuts!
It's quite amazing how many actions there are, including a great number of familiar Emacs actions such as mark and yank. Many of them have no corresponding menu item; many of them have no keyboard shortcut by default. Some of them may be the things you are looking for, and all you need to do is change the shortcut if you don't like it. It is very possible that you'll find at least some bindings that you can use to make Xcode behave in a more familiar way.
I am looking for a shortcut to move the current tab left and right through the tab list. Note that I don't want to switch to the left or right tab with the Cmd+{, Cmd+} shortcuts, but to move the tab.
try iterm2, http://iterm2.com/#/section/home
command + left or right arrow to switch tabs
command + shift + left or right to move tabs
According to Terminal -> Preference -> General,
Command + Ordinal can be used to switch tabs, (Ordinal between 1 to 9)
e.g.: Command + 1: switch to the first tab (left-most tab).
you can add a shortcut to have command+left/right arrow go to previous/next tab:
No, it is not possible to move tabs using keyboard on Terminal app.
I would need to drag them by cursor or try iTerm2 instead.
I don't think you can, and it doesn't appear on any shortcut list i have seen for any browser or application :/
however there seems to be a plugin of sorts for Chrome which does this:
plugin link that might work.
How do I better navigate the command line? In TextMate, I can do:
CMD + ALT + ARROW to switch tabs
CMD + SHIFT + ARROW to highlight lines of text
ALT + SHIFT + ARROW to highlight words
ALT + ARROW to jump words, etc.
How do I do this kind of stuff in the terminal?
Here's a slightly more complete mapping from Mac text navigation to the default Readline keys:
I set this up in the Keys pane of my iTerm2 preferences, but you should be able to make the same mappings in Terminal.app (Edit: Everything except the first two. Terminal.app only lets you pick from a few different keys)
In MacOS' Terminal app, you can change your keyboard bindings; go to Terminal Preferences (shortcut Cmd + ,) and navigate to the 'Keyboard' tab:
Key => Action
control cursor left => \033b
control cursor right => \033f
etc. You can do the same thing with other emacs-style bindings. As far as switching tabs, that's a System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts setting; click 'Application Shortcuts' on the left side, and then click + on the right to add a new shortcut. Use your desired keyboard combo and pair it with the exact menu name, which in Terminal for moving forward/backward through tabs is 'Select Next Tab' and 'Select Previous Tab' (via the Window menu in Terminal), respectively.
Does that help?
This is a pointer for anyone landing here looking for the equivalent tips for iTerm (as opposed to the default terminal).
To do the same in iTerm, go to menu "Bookmarks", "Manage Profiles", "Keyboard profiles", "Global".
Then add all of the shortcuts you see in the other answers here, but instead of sending text "\033..." when creating a mapping, you simply select the action "send character sequence" and the character for the escape sequence!.
"\033b" becomes b
"\033f" becomes f
and so on.
Escape sequence example
Some things can be done by editing the readline bindings (see bind -p / man bash) but for some of the mac keyboard keys you can (or need to?) set extras up in Terminal.app's preferences.
For word navigation try this:
Terminal preferences -> settings -> keyboard
add the following:
option cursor left \033b (escape b) (backwards word)
option cursor right \033f (escape f) (forward word)
option forward delete \033d (escape d) (kill word)
Word boundaries behave a little differently, but it's better than single character or whole line navigation, and doesn't require trading your option key for a meta key and learning a bunch of new key combos.
In the Textmate code-editor I use the Escape-key, for word completion, alot.
Is there a way to bind another key-shortcut to its functionality ?
(ps: my CAPSLOCK is already CTRL)
A much better way to do this (and this applies to all Mac apps in general) is to
Open System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard shortcuts
Click the + sign at the bottom
Choose TextMate from the application menu
Type the exact name of the menu command for next completion and previous completion
Now type the shortcut you want to use and click the Add button
To remap the esc key you have to copy
/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/KeyBindings.dict
to
~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/KeyBindings.dict
and then edit it, preferably using TextMate :) as Property List Editor messes up the codes.
Look for nextCompletion and previousCompletion and replace their values with whatever suits your needs best. For example, you could replace \033 (code for esc) to \t (->|).