It's not as precise as vi movement, but for most command line activities I find the Emacs-like movements sufficiently practical: M-b: back one word M-f: forwa

It's not as precise as vi movement, but for most command line activities I find the Emacs-like movements sufficiently practical: M-b: back one word M-f: forward one word C-a: beginning of line C-e: end of line I also don't like to use the arrow keys because they are so far away, so: C-b: back one character C-f: forward one character C-p: previous command C-n: next command And since I'm making a list now anyway: C-k: Kill to end of line. C-u: Kill to beginning of line. C-y: Yank (put/paste) last killed string. You can then cycle further through the kill ring with M-y. But I have a question concerning Emacs movement: M-b and M-f are rather similar to vim's b and e, respectively, meaning they don't jump to the beginning/end of the non-whitespace-string. That's why vim has B and E. Is there anything similar in Emacs?