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Advanced Terminal Tips and Tricks (www.bitsand.cloud)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
  • Alt-delete deletes the whole word before cursor
  • Alt-d deletes the whole word after cursor
  • Ctrl-k deletes (kill) everything after the cursor

Whatever is deleted is stored in the "killring" and can be pasted(yanked) back with Ctrl-y (like someone else already mentioned), consecutive uses of Alt-delete/Alt-d add to the killring.

  • Alt-b / Alt-f moves one word backwards / forwards
  • Alt-t swaps (translocates) the current word with the previous one
  • Ctrl-_ undo last edit operation

All those bindings are the same as in emacs.

Also, normally Ctrl-d inserts the end-of-file character, and typically can be used to close an active shell session or when you have some other interpreter open in the terminal for interactive input.