En Terminal.app, Preferencias->Configuración, seleccione la pestaña Teclado. Asegúrese de que "Usar clave de opción como meta" esté marcada.
Puede presionar Esc-punto muchas veces, hace lo mismo que alt-punto. Pero, como a usted, me resulta más engorroso escribir a tipo que alt-punto.
Usar opción +.
Tenga en cuenta que esta es una característica de bash y no de linux. Los Mac también tienen bash en ellos. Alt-. es el atajo para una función bash incorporada insert-last-argument . Lea la LÍNEA DE LECTURA sección de la página de manual de bash para saber cómo puede vincular esto a una combinación de teclas diferente.
Pegando algunas partes relevantes:
Readline Initialization
Readline is customized by putting commands in an initialization file (the
inputrc file).
The default key-bindings may be changed with an inputrc file. Other pro-
grams that use this library may add their own commands and bindings.
For example, placing
M-Control-u: universal-argument
or
C-Meta-u: universal-argument
into the inputrc would make M-C-u execute the readline command univer-
sal-argument.
Readline Key Bindings
The syntax for controlling key bindings in the inputrc file is simple.
All that is required is the name of the command or the text of a macro and
a key sequence to which it should be bound. The name may be specified in
one of two ways: as a symbolic key name, possibly with Meta- or Control-
prefixes, or as a key sequence.
When using the form keyname:function-name or macro, keyname is the name of
a key spelled out in English. For example:
Control-u: universal-argument
Meta-Rubout: backward-kill-word
Control-o: "> output"
In the above example, C-u is bound to the function universal-argument,
M-DEL is bound to the function backward-kill-word, and C-o is bound to run
the macro expressed on the right hand side (that is, to insert the text
``> output'' into the line).
In the second form, "keyseq":function-name or macro, keyseq differs from
keyname above in that strings denoting an entire key sequence may be spec-
ified by placing the sequence within double quotes. Some GNU Emacs style
key escapes can be used, as in the following example, but the symbolic
character names are not recognized.
"\C-u": universal-argument
"\C-x\C-r": re-read-init-file
"\e[11~": "Function Key 1"
Commands for Manipulating the History
insert-last-argument (M-., M-_)
A synonym for yank-last-arg.