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Discovering Ctrl+r (for searching through past commands) was a big jump for me in CLI usability.

by mise 15y ago

ordinary 15y ago
You'll also like this little bit I yanked from my .inputrc: # By default up/down are bound to previous-history and next-history, # respectively. The following does the same but gives the extra functionality # where if you type any text (or more accurately, if there is any text between # the start of the line and the cursor), the subset of the history starting with # that text is searched. "\C-p": history-search-backward "\C-n": history-search-forward
- telemachos 15y ago
  Discovering that you could so such things in .inputrc was a big lightbulb moment for me. # not relevant on osx #$include /etc/inputrc $if Bash # append a '/' to show a dir is a dir set mark-directories on set mark-symlinked-directories on # no audible or visual bell set bell-style none # use ls -F style highlights for completion set visible-stats on # go right to showing multiple options set show-all-if-ambiguous on # ctrl-p cycles through options "\C-p": menu-complete "\C-x\C-x": exchange-point-and-mark "\ew": copy-region-as-kill # easier back and forth by word "\C-b": backward-word "\eb": backward-char "\C-f": forward-word "\ef": forward-char $endif # Two silly macros # # Insert double quotes & set cursor between them "\C-x\"": "\"\"\eb" # # Insert single quotes & set cursor between them "\C-x'": "''\eb"
  - lloeki 15y ago
    I did not know you could put conditions in inputrc. Useful.
    - telemachos 15y ago
      I haven't gone to much further with it, but it is very handy: http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#SEC11 http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#SEC11
  - Nick_C 15y ago
    > # silly macros I get shell access on one of my webhosting companies (DreamHost), so I scp data up to it a lot, but the path is a bit of a pain to type, except for this shortcut: # ctrl-d ctrl-h is a mnemonic for DreamHost '\C-d\C-h': login@mysite:login/path/to/mywebsite/data etc.
- deleted 15y ago
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- j-kidd 15y ago
  Better yet, from gentoo's /etc/inputrc: # map "page up" and "page down" to search history based on current cmdline "\e[5~": history-search-backward "\e[6~": history-search-forward This way, you have up/down for history traversal, and page up/page down for history searching. More importantly, and what most people missed out is that, this history searching works on ALL command line interfaces, including bash shell, ipython, and psql. Seriously, a command line advocate who doesn't know about this can't be serious.
  - ordinary 15y ago
    And also, as I learned recently, gdb. That took me by surprise, until I realised that .inputrc does not contain settings for the shell, or any individual CLI program, but for readline.
- Symmetry 15y ago
  Yeah, one of the many nice things about fish(the Friendly Interactive SHell) is that it does that automatically.

Discovering Ctrl+r (for searching through past commands) was a big jump for me in CLI usability.

by mise 15y ago

Discovering Ctrl+r (for searching through past commands) was a big jump for me in CLI usability.

You'll also like this little bit I yanked from my .inputrc: # By default up/down are bound to previous-history and next-history, # respectively. The following does the same but gives the extra functionality # where if you type any text (or more accurately, if there is any text between # the start of the line and the cursor), the subset of the history starting with # that text is searched. "\C-p": history-search-backward "\C-n": history-search-forward

telemachos 15y ago
Discovering that you could so such things in .inputrc was a big lightbulb moment for me. # not relevant on osx #$include /etc/inputrc $if Bash # append a '/' to show a dir is a dir set mark-directories on set mark-symlinked-directories on # no audible or visual bell set bell-style none # use ls -F style highlights for completion set visible-stats on # go right to showing multiple options set show-all-if-ambiguous on # ctrl-p cycles through options "\C-p": menu-complete "\C-x\C-x": exchange-point-and-mark "\ew": copy-region-as-kill # easier back and forth by word "\C-b": backward-word "\eb": backward-char "\C-f": forward-word "\ef": forward-char $endif # Two silly macros # # Insert double quotes & set cursor between them "\C-x\"": "\"\"\eb" # # Insert single quotes & set cursor between them "\C-x'": "''\eb"
- lloeki 15y ago
  I did not know you could put conditions in inputrc. Useful.
  - telemachos 15y ago
    I haven't gone to much further with it, but it is very handy: http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#SEC11 http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#SEC11
- Nick_C 15y ago
  > # silly macros I get shell access on one of my webhosting companies (DreamHost), so I scp data up to it a lot, but the path is a bit of a pain to type, except for this shortcut: # ctrl-d ctrl-h is a mnemonic for DreamHost '\C-d\C-h': login@mysite:login/path/to/mywebsite/data etc.
deleted 15y ago
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j-kidd 15y ago
Better yet, from gentoo's /etc/inputrc: # map "page up" and "page down" to search history based on current cmdline "\e[5~": history-search-backward "\e[6~": history-search-forward This way, you have up/down for history traversal, and page up/page down for history searching. More importantly, and what most people missed out is that, this history searching works on ALL command line interfaces, including bash shell, ipython, and psql. Seriously, a command line advocate who doesn't know about this can't be serious.
- ordinary 15y ago
  And also, as I learned recently, gdb. That took me by surprise, until I realised that .inputrc does not contain settings for the shell, or any individual CLI program, but for readline.
Symmetry 15y ago
Yeah, one of the many nice things about fish(the Friendly Interactive SHell) is that it does that automatically.