Make word-back and word-forwards navigation work again on PhpStorm's Terminal
The Problem
JetBrains' IDEs are awesome! The more you get into them, the more you rely on them. One problem, however, has pestered me for a while: the built-in terminal doesn't have support for the word-back and work-forwards shortcut. You know, when you hold alt + left-arrow or alt + right-arrow? Most of the time I use a Mac, so in the past I used a pretty nifty program called "Keyboard Maestro" to create a shortcut that worked only on PhpStorm and other JetBrains IDEs that would do that for me, but as well as that worked, I always wondered if there was a nicer way. Turns out there is!
The Solution
Turns out that an answer for the same problem on iTerm also works for PhpStorm! The fix involves creating a new file named ~/.inputrc and then put the following code in it:
"\e\e[D": backward-word "\e\e[C": forward-word
Easy Peasy!
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