Regarding Ctrl+R: Forget fzf for a moment and ask if you ever use it or some similar history command. If you do, then fzf is automatically a better interface t

Regarding Ctrl+R: Forget fzf for a moment and ask if you ever use it or some similar history command. If you do, then fzf is automatically a better interface than the default one. If you don't, then yes, I use it all the time to find the exact command I typed in a few weeks ago. I'm not going to memorize all the options I passed in, etc. For Alt+C: Useful even if you organize things very well. I'm in my home directory. I have /home/me/media/video/youtube/channel_name. I want to go in there. That's a lot of typing (even with Tab autocompletion). When I can just press Alt+C and type perhaps 4 characters of the channel name and I'm instantly in that directory. Do this 100 times over for different directories and the benefits become obvious. In the past I would put convenient symlinks to get to deeper directories quickly, and I now realize that approach is just a hack due to a poor navigation interface.