Shortcuts I find useful

Sunday, June 15. 2008

It is entirely possible that I was the only one who didn't know about these but I'm going risk exposing my ignorance on the off chance that at least one of you may find this useful.

These shortcuts work in BASH shells with default bindings (emacs) and in most text fields in Firefox, as well as a number of other places.

Ctrl + a -- Move cursor to the beginning of line
Ctrl + e -- Move cursor to the end of the line
Ctrl + u -- Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line
Ctrl + k -- Delete from the cursor to the end of the line

These basic shortcuts have kept me from pulling my hair out lately. There are tons more.

On a related note I'm trying to decide whether to really learn vi or emacs. I don't think I'll be able to keep both sets of commands/shortcuts straight so I have to decide on one and run with it. Right now I know the very basics of both. It's time to stop messing around and choose. Do any of you have preference?

Posted by Mike in Tech at 16:23 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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I suck at it using it still, but I've been gravitating towards vi lately (even though we used emacs at school). I guess the reason is that its pretty much a sure bet that you'll find it in out the box in any Linux Distro out there, even among the crazy maverick ones. Also because of my job, I'm use to having to use it to edit the Sudoers file a lot.

#1 Paul (Homepage) on 2008-06-15 18:27 (Reply)

I'm leaning toward vi. Like you said it's on almost every box because it's small. The learning curve is a little steeper but the efficiency increase once you have it down seems substantial.

#1.1 Mike on 2008-06-15 18:43 (Reply)

Do "Home" and "End" not work for Ctrl+a and Ctrl+e in bash? I figured they did, but I like Ctrl+u and Ctrl+k.

#2 Andy on 2008-06-15 18:59 (Reply)

On my mac the Home and End keys are also the arrow keys so they are kind of out. I would image they work as expected on a keyboard with a normal layout though.

#2.1 Mike on 2008-06-15 21:01 (Reply)

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