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menteith
Asked: 2018-06-20 02:52:30 +0800 CST

Clear the characters before the current cursor position in Zsh

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In bash pressing CTRL + U clears the characters on the line before the current cursor position while in zsh this will clear the entire line. How do I clear the characters on the line before the current cursor position by pressing CTRL + U in zsh?

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  1. Best Answer

    Bash and zsh work slightly different here. In zsh, CTRL + U clears the entire line instead.

    Add these lines into your configuration .zsh:

    bindkey -e
bindkey \^U backward-kill-line

    You can use

    $ bindkey

    to list all of your keyboard shortcuts in zsh.

    BTW: in bash you will print all bindkey with the following command:

    bind -P

    So no cheat sheets are necessary!

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  2. In zsh, Alt+W deletes the from the cursor back to the beginning of the current word.

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