[Cialug] more efficient command line editing

Matt Stanton inflatablesoulmate at brothersofchaos.com
Sun Apr 18 19:51:02 CDT 2010


I'm not exactly sure if putty automatically translates home and end to 
shift+ but from putty I'm able to use home and end for those purposes 
over ssh to my linux box.  It doesn't do the same for 
ctrl+backspace/left/right, though.

On 4/18/2010 7:23 PM, Kenneth Younger wrote:
> Is there something out there that allows me to use keys like home 
> (beginning of line), end (end of line), ctrl-backspace (delete word), 
> ctrl-left (move cursor back one word), etc. on the command line? Yes, 
> I know about ctrl-a, ctrl-e (there's also shift+home,end) - but I'd 
> love to have the same keystrokes I use everywhere else work on the 
> command line too.
>
> -Kenny
>
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