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Do you know where I can find a list of hotkeys along the lines of C-a? I personally created my own hotkey (shift left arrow) but learning standard ones would pr

Do you know where I can find a list of hotkeys along the lines of C-a? I personally created my own hotkey (shift left arrow) but learning standard ones would probably be good.

jrockway 16y ago
If you use bash, read the "Command Line Editing" section of "info readline".
- telemachos 16y ago
  You can also tweak the behavior of readline (for Bash and other applications) and custom make your own key combinations by editing your ~/.inputrc file. A random example from mine: # Insert double quotes & set cursor between them "\C-x\"": "\"\"\eb" # # Insert single quotes & set cursor between them "\C-x'": "''\eb" See also the Bash manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Command-Line-Editing http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Command...
pyre 16y ago
Most shells default to emacs keybindings: C-a beginning of line C-k kill text from cursor to end of line C-e end of line M-b move cursor backwards by a word M-f move cursor forwards by a word C-w delete backwards by a word C-h backspace (great when real backspace doesn't work) C-r reverse search through command history (C-w works in Vim(insert mode) and Emacs, but kills me when I try to type it in a browser window to delete a word... Good-bye window and/or tab) In zsh I actually have M-w bound to the normal backspace-by-a-word and C-w bound to the vim version which will do things like count '/' as a word separator so that I can easily backspace through sections of a path rather than be required to delete the whole thing (or nothing).
- xenophanes 16y ago
  Hmm, FYI most of those work in the safari reply box. I think Apple put them for all Cocoa text fields not just terminal :-)
  - uxp 16y ago
    > I think Apple put them for all Cocoa text fields not just terminal :-) It is the NSTextField that accepts those commands. The prefix NS stands for NeXTSTEP, so the functionality existed long before Cocoa.
  - pyre 16y ago
    Yea, but you have to hit Ctrl+Option or Cmd+Option (can't remember which off the top of my head) for Meta though, instead of just Option (which is what most people bind to Meta in Terminal.app or iTerm.app).
- BrandonM 16y ago
  > (C-w works in Vim(insert mode) and Emacs, but kills me when I try to type it in a browser window to delete a word... Good-bye window and/or tab) Control-Shift-T usually solves that problem for me in Firefox.

Do you know where I can find a list of hotkeys along the lines of C-a? I personally created my own hotkey (shift left arrow) but learning standard ones would probably be good.

jrockway 16y ago

If you use bash, read the "Command Line Editing" section of "info readline".

telemachos 16y ago
You can also tweak the behavior of readline (for Bash and other applications) and custom make your own key combinations by editing your ~/.inputrc file. A random example from mine: # Insert double quotes & set cursor between them "\C-x\"": "\"\"\eb" # # Insert single quotes & set cursor between them "\C-x'": "''\eb" See also the Bash manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Command-Line-Editing http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Command...

pyre 16y ago

Most shells default to emacs keybindings: C-a beginning of line C-k kill text from cursor to end of line C-e end of line M-b move cursor backwards by a word M-f move cursor forwards by a word C-w delete backwards by a word C-h backspace (great when real backspace doesn't work) C-r reverse search through command history (C-w works in Vim(insert mode) and Emacs, but kills me when I try to type it in a browser window to delete a word... Good-bye window and/or tab) In zsh I actually have M-w bound to the normal backspace-by-a-word and C-w bound to the vim version which will do things like count '/' as a word separator so that I can easily backspace through sections of a path rather than be required to delete the whole thing (or nothing).

xenophanes 16y ago
Hmm, FYI most of those work in the safari reply box. I think Apple put them for all Cocoa text fields not just terminal :-)
- uxp 16y ago
  > I think Apple put them for all Cocoa text fields not just terminal :-) It is the NSTextField that accepts those commands. The prefix NS stands for NeXTSTEP, so the functionality existed long before Cocoa.
- pyre 16y ago
  Yea, but you have to hit Ctrl+Option or Cmd+Option (can't remember which off the top of my head) for Meta though, instead of just Option (which is what most people bind to Meta in Terminal.app or iTerm.app).
BrandonM 16y ago
> (C-w works in Vim(insert mode) and Emacs, but kills me when I try to type it in a browser window to delete a word... Good-bye window and/or tab) Control-Shift-T usually solves that problem for me in Firefox.