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Alternative delete a 'word' shortcut in Terminal
Authored by: nvdingo on Fri, Aug 31 2007 at 7:49AM PDT

Or just open the window settings panel, choose the keyboard section and enable 'use option key as meta key'

this allows the use of option instead of esc
a little more convenient
meta-d will delete the word forward of the cursor by the way.