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inigyou • today at 10:29 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

This is for teletypewriters. For those of us with interactive electronic video displays, we can use up-arrow to recall the last command or Ctrl-R to search history, then edit the recalled command.

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amiga386 • today at 11:55 AM

And for editing that command line... I know a lot of people who know about Ctrl-a, Ctrl-e, Ctrl-k, but still hold down the left arrow key or delete key a lot to edit things in the middle.

Those people want to use:

    Alt-f    move cursor forward one word
    Alt-b    move cursor back one word
    Alt-d    delete to the end of the next word
    Alt-Del  delete backwards to the start of the previous word

    Ctrl-_   undo
Here's a cheatsheet: https://readline.kablamo.org/emacs.html
pcblues • today at 11:09 AM

I appreciate the true snark of this :)