For as long as I can remember, I’ve used ctrl+l to clear my bash screen, ctr+d to exit/logout of my bash session. When editing, the escape sequenced key combinations I’ve used, some more than others, are:
ctrl+a |
Moves cursor to the beginning of the command line (used often for when I forget to type sudo prior to it). |
ctrl+e |
Moves cursor to the end of the command line (often used after I used ctrl+a to add parameters. |
ctrl+u |
After hitting up arrow and realizing I don’t want this command, I use this to clear to the beginning of the line. |
ctrl+k |
After hitting up arrow and moving back a few spaces or words, you want to delete the line to the right (like D in vi. |
ctrl+l |
Much quicker than typing clear. |
ctrl+d |
Much quicker than typing exit. |
And then there are some sequences that I knew it existed, but just didn’t use. For example, ctrl-r. This allows one to search the command history contextually. I guess I got too used to typing history|grep -i for what I was looking for but ctrl-r does seem much more powerful.
Since I use vi (and spacevim) for all of my editing-needs when at the command line (even though I registered my Sublime), I was thinking that some form of b and f would exist. And they do! But, it’s in the form of ctrl+[ b and ctrl+[ f. Well, you can either remap them to send these escape sequences pressing ctrl-b and ctrl-f (but you’ll lose the backward / forward character key-sequenced that these normally use), OR you can enable the meta key on your terminal.
