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iTerm2 on Mac OSX: add alt-left, alt-right and alt-backspace behaviour

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If you want iTerm2 to behave like the other Mac OSX applications, so that alt + left moves the previous word, alt + right moves to the next word and alt + backspace deletes the whole word, add these keyboard shortcuts from iTerm > Preferences > Profiles > Keys:

Alt + left: Send Escape Sequence, Esc + b
Alt + right: Send Escape Sequence, Esc + f
Alt + backspace: Send Hex Code, 0x17

via http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2013/01/09/iterm2-on-mac-osx-add-alt-left-alt-right-and-alt-backspace-behaviour/