Press Option while you press an arrow key. Here are shortcuts you can use, in addition to those that appear in Safari menus. For example, press CTRL plus the key that you want to use. In the Press new shortcut key box, press the combination of keys that you want to assign. To assign a keyboard shortcut do the following: Begin keyboard shortcuts with CTRL or a function key. Alt (⌥)+F to jump Forward by a word alt (⌥)+B to jump Backward by a word I have observed that default emacs key-bindings for simple text navigation seem to work on bash shells. Note that you have to make Option key act like Meta in Terminal preferences (under keyboard tab). On Mac OS X - the following keyboard shortcuts work by default.
