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Show HN: Tip – use ctrl and w to rapid delete in terminal / shell

#1

Post by abpai » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 7:49 AM UTC

hours of life saved :)

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#2

Post by wsc981 » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 8:16 AM UTC

Useful tip. Made me realise ctrl-s works to go to start of line and ctrl-e to end of line. This is probably common knowledge for any Linux user but for me as a Mac user it's a revelation.

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#3

Post by choicenotchance » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 8:37 AM UTC

That's just common knowledge. I mean, anyone who has worked for about a year on linux would know.

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#4

Post by nstart » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 9:29 AM UTC

Thank you! Didn't know this till today.

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#5

Post by stevekemp » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:28 AM UTC

This handling comes from readline, rather than your terminal/shell.

Readline has many shortcuts available here's a random assortment:

http://teohm.com/blog/2012/01/04/shortcuts-to-move-faster-in...

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#6

Post by jdmoreira » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 12:53 PM UTC

https://github.com/0nn0/terminal-mac-cheatsheet/wiki/Termina...

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#7

Post by cwt » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 1:45 PM UTC

jdmoreira wrote: post #6

https://github.com/0nn0/terminal-mac-cheatsheet/wiki/Termina...

This is glorious!

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#8

Post by amk_ » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 3:41 PM UTC

wsc981 wrote: post #2

Useful tip. Made me realise ctrl-s works to go to start of line and ctrl-e to end of line. This is probably common knowledge for any Linux user but for me as a Mac user it's a revelation.

You mean ctrl-a for beginning-of-line?

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Post by ksherlock » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 6:16 PM UTC

stevekemp wrote: post #5

This handling comes from readline, rather than your terminal/shell. Readline has many shortcuts available here's a random assortment: http://teohm.com/blog/2012/01/04/shortcuts-to-move-faster-in...

^W, ^U, ^C, ^S, ^Q, ^Z, etc are handled by the terminal driver. See stty -a

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#10

Post by atsaloli » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 4:12 AM UTC

amk_ wrote: post #8

wsc981 wrote: post #2

Useful tip. Made me realise ctrl-s works to go to start of line and ctrl-e to end of line. This is probably common knowledge for any Linux user but for me as a Mac user it's a revelation.

You mean ctrl-a for beginning-of-line?

Yeah, it's ctrl-A for start of line.

Here's a good cheatsheet: http://www.bigsmoke.us/readline/shortcuts