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The Just in that sentence is wholly unjustified. There are plenty of cli/tui/console/shell shortcuts that are incredibly useful, yet they are wholly undiscovera

by eptcyka 7mo ago

The Just in that sentence is wholly unjustified. There are plenty of cli/tui/console/shell shortcuts that are incredibly useful, yet they are wholly undiscoverable and do not work cross-platform, e.g. shell motions between macOS and reasonable OSes.

QuantumNomad_ 7mo ago
> shell motions between macOS and reasonable OSes All the movement commands I know work the same in the terminal on a default install of macOS as it does in the terminal on various Linux distros I use. Ctrl+A to go to beginning of line Ctrl+E to go to end of line Esc, B to jump cursor one word backwards Esc, F to jump cursor one word forward Ctrl+W to delete backwards until beginning of word And so on Both in current versions of macOS where zsh is the default shell, and in older versions of macOS where bash was the default shell. Am I misunderstanding what you are referring to by shell motions?
- eptcyka 7mo ago
  Yea, but ctrl + arrows to move cursor between ‘words’ don’t work, especially sad when SSH’ing in from linux. It works fine when using terminal on macOS - you just use command + arrows.
  - mathfailure 7mo ago
    Works fine for me. Configure your shell.
- malfist 7mo ago
  What happens when you press home or end?
  - int_19h 7mo ago
    In iTerm at least it goes to the beginning or end of current line.
- jorvi 7mo ago
  These are emacs bindings of yore. On macOS and some Linux DEs they also work in UI text fields :)
fer 7mo ago
> e.g. shell motions between macOS and reasonable OSes. I forgot about this since I started NixOS/home-manager everywhere.
macintux 7mo ago
The number of times I’ve attempted to use Ctrl-U in a Python shell only to discover it doesn’t work…
- fulafel 7mo ago
  Haven't seen this - shouldn't this always work on unixy platforms? If using readline/editline it works, and if built without it also works.
  - macintux 7mo ago
    It’s an internal, custom, vaguely UNIX-like shell in Windows. Typically I’m running Python from bash; Ctrl-U works under bash, but not Python.
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by eptcyka 7mo ago

QuantumNomad_ 7mo ago

> shell motions between macOS and reasonable OSes All the movement commands I know work the same in the terminal on a default install of macOS as it does in the terminal on various Linux distros I use. Ctrl+A to go to beginning of line Ctrl+E to go to end of line Esc, B to jump cursor one word backwards Esc, F to jump cursor one word forward Ctrl+W to delete backwards until beginning of word And so on Both in current versions of macOS where zsh is the default shell, and in older versions of macOS where bash was the default shell. Am I misunderstanding what you are referring to by shell motions?

eptcyka 7mo ago
Yea, but ctrl + arrows to move cursor between ‘words’ don’t work, especially sad when SSH’ing in from linux. It works fine when using terminal on macOS - you just use command + arrows.
- mathfailure 7mo ago
  Works fine for me. Configure your shell.
malfist 7mo ago
What happens when you press home or end?
- int_19h 7mo ago
  In iTerm at least it goes to the beginning or end of current line.
jorvi 7mo ago
These are emacs bindings of yore. On macOS and some Linux DEs they also work in UI text fields :)

fer 7mo ago

> e.g. shell motions between macOS and reasonable OSes. I forgot about this since I started NixOS/home-manager everywhere.

macintux 7mo ago

The number of times I’ve attempted to use Ctrl-U in a Python shell only to discover it doesn’t work…

fulafel 7mo ago
Haven't seen this - shouldn't this always work on unixy platforms? If using readline/editline it works, and if built without it also works.
- macintux 7mo ago
  It’s an internal, custom, vaguely UNIX-like shell in Windows. Typically I’m running Python from bash; Ctrl-U works under bash, but not Python.

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