Show HN: Tip – use ctrl and w to rapid delete in terminal / shell

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224136

by abpai • 11 years ago

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hours of life saved :)

wsc981• 11 years ago

Useful tip. Made me realise ctrl-s works to go to start of line and ctrl-e to end of line. This is probably common knowledge for any Linux user but for me as a Mac user it's a revelation.

amk_• 11 years ago

You mean ctrl-a for beginning-of-line?

atsaloli• 11 years ago

Yeah, it's ctrl-A for start of line.

Here's a good cheatsheet: http://www.bigsmoke.us/readline/shortcuts

nstart• 11 years ago

Thank you! Didn't know this till today.

stevekemp• 11 years ago

This handling comes from readline, rather than your terminal/shell.

Readline has many shortcuts available here's a random assortment:

http://teohm.com/blog/2012/01/04/shortcuts-to-move-faster-in...

ksherlock• 11 years ago

^W, ^U, ^C, ^S, ^Q, ^Z, etc are handled by the terminal driver. See stty -a

jdmoreira• 11 years ago

https://github.com/0nn0/terminal-mac-cheatsheet/wiki/Termina...

cwt• 11 years ago

This is glorious!

Show HN: Tip – use ctrl and w to rapid delete in terminal / shell

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