Option-left and right arrow work great for this in MacVim on *my* macs 
(including Lion). I am left wondering if there is some peculiarity to your 
account. Could you try another Mac or at least create a second account and see 
if it happens then?

On Nov 12, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Nunzio Losacco <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey guys, although I'm a "newbie forever" I perfectly know "w" and "b" go one
> word forth/back ;-)
> 
> But...
> 1) I'm looking for arrow keys combos (as ctrl+right/left on my linux box)
> being the same as in the terminal (namely alt+right/left on OSX)
> 2) "w" and "b" are for "command mode", I want to move the cursor through
> words also in "insert mode", exactly as I do in the terminal, instead of
> having the odd behaviour I described in my first post.
> 
> 
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