Option+Backspace should delete word backwards in shell
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Description
### Discussed in https://github.com/blinksh/blink/discussions/2145
Originally posted by **oscu0** August 27, 2025
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.
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Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by tracing Blink's shell keyboard handling for Option+Backspace and compare it with the existing Emacs-style word navigation; done means the shortcut deletes the preceding word in the Blink shell without affecting the reported remote-host behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell, swift
- Domain
- cli, mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100