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If you are on OS X and use Terminal.app “Alt-.” won’t work because Alt is used for alternate characters. You have two options: enable “use option as meta” in the app settings (but you lose the extra characters) or use “Esc-.” instead.

Yes, I know about iTerm. I don’t want it.



iTerm2 by chance? Carries a great deal of improvements over the original iTerm and is under active development.


One way or another, that's true of any terminal. The shell sees characters, not keystrokes.




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