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Pickels
Asked: 2011-06-18 04:19:53 +0800 CST

Better keyboard control in shell

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I work a lot in vim and the thing that frustrates me is when I have to switch to the shell, that I lose a lot of the keyboard control that vim has.

For example I have to use home and end to get to beginning and end of the line.

How do you deal with this annoyance?

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    According to the Bash manual, Bash natively supports a "vi-style command line editing interface". To use it, add set -o vi to your ~/.bashrc file.

    By default you'll be in input mode; press Esc to enter command mode. This cheatsheet lists the commands available to you.

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    1. Use Home and End in Vim too.
    2. Learn all the shortcuts there are in the shell.

    Usually, Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E go to the beginning and end of the line, respectively. You can define any number of shortcuts in your .inputrc file, and even switch to vi-mode. Try man bash and look for READLINE.

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