[Gllug] bash / go to beginning of line

[James Tullett]

On Tuesday 19 Feb 2002 11:17 am, Paul Brazier wrote:
> In bash I'm used to pressing "Home" to get to the beginning of the line.
> On my Debian server this doesn't seem to work but gives me some other
> characters (I think ^$ or something).
> The bash version is 2.x and the Home key works OK in vim.
> Is this standard for Debian? Is it bash doing this or something else
> like the keyboard setup on the machine?

C-a to start of line
C-e to end of line
C-f forward 1 character
C-b backward 1 character
Esc-f forward 1 word
Esc-b backward 1 word
Esc-d delete 1 word

Yes those are emacs keybindings.  I gather that there are vi keybindings
as well.
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James Tullett

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