Bash Emacs Editing Mode Cheat Sheet

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October 31, 2007, 04:41

Ankush, it will not be the vi (editor) cheat sheet! It will be a cheat sheet for vi keyboard bindings when working with bash!

As I said in the article, bash uses readline library to get input from you. When you type something (for example a command 'ls -las') it's the readline library that gets this text for you.

The library has two editing modes - emacs mode and vi mode. Each of these modes has its own keyboard shortcuts for doing stuff like moving a word back, clearing the whole line, etc.

This article provided a cheat sheet for emacs mode.

The next one is going to be a cheat sheet for vi mode.

I personally use both modes and switch between them as needed.

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