Worth a mention is that you can customize how Readline handles these sorts of shortcuts in your ~/.inputrc file. For example, I use forward and backward by wor

Worth a mention is that you can customize how Readline handles these sorts of shortcuts in your ~/.inputrc file. For example, I use forward and backward by word far more often than by character, so I do this: $if Bash # various other stuff left out # easier back and forth by word "\C-b": backward-word "\eb": backward-char "\C-f": forward-word "\ef": forward-char $endif For more examples and syntax, see http://docs.freebsd.org/info/readline/readline.info.Sample_Init_File.html http://docs.freebsd.org/info/readline/readline.info.Sample_I... and http://docs.freebsd.org/info/readline/readline.info.Readline_Init_File.html http://docs.freebsd.org/info/readline/readline.info.Readline....