In emacs, M-f moves the caret to the end of the next word. In zsh, M-f (or rather alt-f) moves the caret to the beginning of the next word.
For a more consistent experience, I'd like to have zsh alt-f mirror emacs behavior.
How can I do this?
bindkey '\ef' emacs-forward-word
See:
zle -la | grep word
to list the widgets that contain the word word.
info --index-search=emacs-forward-word zsh
to get the documentation on a given widget.
\M-f to emacs-forward-word did not work for me. Searching with bindkey | grep forward-word showed that the correct mapping on my system was to ^[f and ^[F.
\M-f is f with the eighth bit set. Some terminals send that upon Alt-F but they are getting rare in those utf8 days. I'll amend the answer as \ef is likely to be useful to more people.
bash/libreadline/emacs will move the cursor to c in a-b-c. But emacs-backward-word moves the cursor to a. What is the correct zsh option which actually provides emacs-like behavior?