Looking for ALT+LeftArrowKey solution in zsh

Question

I just recently switched from bash to zsh, however I miss my Alt+LeftArrowKey and Alt+RightArrowKey to go back and forth a word at a

Answer 1

On Mavericks (10.9.4) the code is 1;5... so for binding alt with arrows I have my .zshrc using this:

bindkey "^[[1;5C" forward-word
bindkey "^[[1;5D" backward-word

You can use CTRL+V and then the command you want to use

in Yosemite use Rob's solution