David Philp wrote:
> 
> On 23/09/2008, at 11:00 AM, Bob Wonderly wrote:
> 
>> I run Sage on my Mac rather than on the web. I often bring up the
>> previous command and edit it then rerun it. The editor is very tedious
>> in that the only way I have figured out how to move the cursor  
>> around in
>> the text is one character at a time using the left and right arrow  
>> keys
>> and the back-space-delete key. Given a several-line for-loop to edit
>> this can be frustrating.
> 
> Mmmm... at the command line, ctrl-a and ctrl-e take you to the start  
> and end of the line.  In many OS X applications, ctrl-option-b jumps  
> back by a word (roughly standard readline behaviour) but as far as   I  
> can tell, nothing like this works in sage's command line (which is a  
> shame.)


What is the "meta" key in OS X?  For me, pressing escape (my meta key) 
and then b takes me back a word.  Does option-b take you back?

Jason


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