command line cursor moving shortcuts
- ALT+F to jump Forward by a word.
- ALT+B to jump Backward by a word.
Additionally some Emacs-style key bindings for simple text navigation seem to work on bash shells. You can use:
- CTRL+F to move forward by a char
- CTRL+B to move backward by a char
- CTRL+A to jump to start of the line
- CTRL+E to jump to end of the line
- CTRL+K to kill the line starting from the cursor position
- ALT+D to delete a word starting from the current cursor position
- CTRL+W to remove the word backwards from cursor position
- CTRL+Y to paste text from the kill buffer
- CTRL+R to reverse search for commands you typed in the past from your history.
- CTRL+S to forward search (works in ZSH for me but not bash)