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Better iTerm on Leopard iTerm, the replacement for the default Terminal.app, has been around for a long time. I have resisted using it for a variety of reasons. At one point it was running far too slow on my machine. After that it was a bit buggy. However, a couple of days ago Terminal.app crashed at took with it an unholy amount of work in progress. Perfect opportunity to give iTerm a shot....

Finally figured out how to make bash delete words the same way Vim does. For starters I enable vi editing mode in readline. So, when i press Ctrl-W I expect bash to delete up to the previous word delimiter. By default bash/readline deletes up to the previous space. So, to enable the use of punctuation as a word delimiter while using vi editing mode one has to use the following in the ~/....