What control character do I send to the terminal to make it delete a full word at a time? I recently discovered that sending \033[5D and \033[5C sends the character to move a full word at a time, making mac os x terminal almost as awesome as the default ubuntu and debian terminals. 

So then, the one thing I'm missing is: the control key to bind option-delete and option-backspace to deletion of full words.
ctrl+W will delete the previous word.