# Alt-del to remove a word to the left in the REPL
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/alt-del-to-remove-a-word-to-the-left-in-the-repl/114517
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** repl, suggestions
**Created:** [May 21, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/alt-del-to-remove-a-word-to-the-left-in-the-repl/114517 "2024-05-21T15:05:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@1m1](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/1m1)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/alt-del-to-remove-a-word-to-the-left-in-the-repl/114517/1 "2024-05-21T15:05:06Z")
the macOS terminal has this feature and it is very useful
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### Author:  [@aryavorskiy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aryavorskiy)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/alt-del-to-remove-a-word-to-the-left-in-the-repl/114517/2 "2024-05-21T15:13:09Z")
Are you on Windows? If yes, try `Ctrl+Backspace` to delete one word to the left, and `Ctrl+Delete` to delete one word to the right.
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### Author:  [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/alt-del-to-remove-a-word-to-the-left-in-the-repl/114517/3 "2024-05-21T15:33:59Z")
What’s your question? Are you asking how to enable this on Windows? It’s really a feature of your terminal — the Julia REPL supports it if the terminal sends the appropriate key codes.
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### Author:  [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/alt-del-to-remove-a-word-to-the-left-in-the-repl/114517/4 "2024-05-21T15:44:29Z")
I guess there are many variables here but on Win 11, WezTerm with nushell I can use `Ctrl+Backspace` to delete a word to the left, but this doesn’t work in the Julia REPL (`Ctrl+Delete` doesnt work outside the REPL either)
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### Author:  [@aryavorskiy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aryavorskiy)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/alt-del-to-remove-a-word-to-the-left-in-the-repl/114517/5 "2024-05-21T15:51:08Z")
Hmmm. Seems it depends on the terminal after all. The VSCode console works OK, but the Win11 terminal does not process these key combinations correctly (but `Ctrl+arrows` works; also all these combinations work outside the REPL). Looks like it is worth opening an issue.
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### Author:  [@1m1](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/1m1)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/alt-del-to-remove-a-word-to-the-left-in-the-repl/114517/6 "2024-05-21T16:47:23Z")
i am on macOS (14.4.1) and when i run the julia (1.10.0) REPL in a standard macOS terminal, the alt-del (nor ctrl-del, nor cmd-del, nor fn-del) delete the word, even tho alt-del does work in the terminal itself (zsh)
i was suggesting to add the feature to the REPL
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### Author:  [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/alt-del-to-remove-a-word-to-the-left-in-the-repl/114517/8 "2024-05-21T17:05:51Z")
In Terminal.app’s preferences, select “use option key as meta” in the “Profiles” tab under “Keyboard”
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### Author:  [@1m1](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/1m1)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/alt-del-to-remove-a-word-to-the-left-in-the-repl/114517/9 "2024-05-21T17:12:19Z")
ty, works!