Option+Backspace should delete word backwards in shell

[oscu0]

Option+Backspace (meta+backspace, whatever) should delete word backwards in shell. This doesn’t appear to be an issue with my keyboard configuration — the key combination works fine on remote hosts where readline is configured to use Emacs shortcuts and option+b,f work as expected even in Blink shell.

[carloscabanero]

Thanks for the report.

A year ago or so, I implemented some changes with the way we handled the backspace, Ctrl-c and Ctrl-d within the terminal, and I don't remember exactly why I couldn't fully get this to work, but I think I remember it was a stupid and hard limitation that had to do with the terminal itself.

I decided to post-pone a fix because we will be switching terminals. In the meantime, you can go back the word with meta-b and then do meta-d.

I'm going to move this to Issues so I can track it there when switching Terminals.