It's time for more intuitive command line movements
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The alphabet of command line stuff!!!
Control a start of line b back one letter c interrupt d delete forward / send eof e end of line f forward one char g send bell \a (does a cancel in emacs) h delete backwards i send tab j send return k delete forward to end of line l clear screen m send carriage return (obsolete) n next history item o ... nothing? p previous history item q ... nothing? c-p c-q detaches from docker container r ... nothing by itself, same as c-p when there is text s ... nothing by itself, I bind it to accept autocompletion t TRANSPOSE CHARS WOO u delete backwards to start of line v escape key for typing control characters, also used for visual block in vim w delete word backward x ... nothing, used as prefix key in emacs y yank z stop foreground process Meta a ... just types a? b backward word c capitalize word and move forward d delete word forward e start $EDITOR f forward word g ... just types g? h ... nothing? i ... just types i? j ... just types j? k ... k l whoa does ls m ... m n ... n o ... nothing p whoa adds &| less q de facto quit r ... r s whoa prepend with sudo t WOOO TRANSPOSE WORDS u whoa uppercase word v whoa open in pico w whoa show whatis for current command x ... x y ... nothing z ... z
tbd: shift+control, shift+meta, special chars.
alt-backspace deletes backwards word
How to delete previous characters until whitespace? Just c-w I guess and delete previous subword is alt-backspace
also there's tricks like alt-up to get the last word of the last command at least on mac C-a _s_tart of line |1|here is a lo|0|ng test sentence
C-e _e_nd of line here is a lo|0|ng test sentence|1|
M-b _b_ack one word here is a |1|lo|0|ng test sentence