Bash Keyboard shortcuts Editing Shortcuts
Example
| Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + a | move to the beginning of the line |
| Ctrl + e | move to the end of the line |
| Ctrl + k | Kill the text from the current cursor position to the end of the line. |
| Ctrl + u | Kill the text from the current cursor position to the beginning of the line |
| Ctrl + w | Kill the word behind the current cursor position |
| Alt + b | move backward one word |
| Alt + f | move forward one word |
| Ctrl + Alt + e | shell expand line |
| Ctrl + y | Yank the most recently killed text back into the buffer at the cursor. |
| Alt + y | Rotate through killed text. You can only do this if the prior command is Ctrl + y or Alt + y. |
Killing text will delete text, but save it so that the user can reinsert it by yanking. Similar to cut and paste except that the text is placed on a kill ring which allows for storing more than one set of text to be yanked back on to the command line.
You can find out more in the emacs manual.
