Essential Keybindings For Bash, Fish and Zsh

One of the most useful features of the Bash shell (Fish and Zsh too!) is the built-in keybindings that can greatly speed up your terminal workflow.

By default, your shell uses Emacs-style keybindings, but you can change to Vim-like bindings if you prefer. The following are the commands to change to Vi-bindings (and back to Emacs-bindings).

BASH: set -o vi (set -o emacs)
ZSH : bindkey -v (bindkey -e)
FISH : fish_vi_key_bindings (fish_default_key_bindings)

The following commands were shown in this video. Listed are the Emacs-bindings followed by the Vim-bindings in parentheses:

CTRL-a (0 or ^) jump to beginning of line
CTRL-e ($) jump to end of line

CTRL-f (h) move forward one char
CTRL-b (l) move backward one char

ALT-f (w) move forward one word
ALT-b (b) move backward one word
2w, 2b…in Vi-mode

CTRL-k (d$) delete from this point to the end of the line
CTRL-u (d0) delete from beginning of the line to this point
CTRL-y (u) undo

CTRL-w (db) delete a word backwards
ALT-d (dw) delete a word forwards

Alt-. to past last command argument
Or just type !!, !$ in the command line

CTRL-p (k) move to prev command in history
CTRL-n (j) move to next command in history

CTRL-l to clear terminal
CTRL-d to exit the shell

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