That’s why my terminal is emacs
Emacs and bash use the same navigation shortcuts though, LOL.
Bold of you to assume that an Emacs user will have anything remotely resembling the default keymap by the time they’re proud enough to brag about it
set -o viThis. Esc, then b. Or if you’re a stickler for keeping you hands on home row, Ctrl [ does the trick as well. Bonus points for making that more comfortable via a remapping of Caps Lock to control (or swapping the two).
I think you mean OS
That’s why my terminal is OS
I’ve never used a distro that didn’t come with a sane default shell config to avoid this
Idk about bash but at least in fish I can do alt + arrows to move the cursor by word, also alt + backspace works to delete whole words.
Does anyone know how to fix it in bash?
Why is your user flagged as a bot account? You certainly aren’t behaving like a bot.
Maybe it’s because I join and in a few day I create several communities and commented into too much. I am just trying to replace Reddit lol
There’s a “Bot Account” checkbox in your user profile settings. You should be able to just deselect it, and you’ll be a normal user.
It works for me, which terminal are you using?
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You didn’t read my comment properly :(
so this is why I can’t relate to the meme
fish is nice but the nonstandard syntax gets really annoying after a while. I use ble.sh these days.
I have no such weakness because I never learned bash syntax anyway.
Train yourself to use edit-and-execute and this problem disappears forever. Now I’m annoyed when I type “esc v v” and nothing happens.
Ctrl+a - go to beginning of line (alpha? I dunno)
ctrl+e - go to (e)nd of the line
alt+f - (f)orward one word
alt+b - (b)ack one word
You might already know these but no one else has posted them on this thread yet. I work in both Linux and Mac a lot and this works for them. No idea about Windows I’m no longer forced to use it at work 🙂
Also
Ctrl + wto delete one word backwards (which is what OP wants to do).Edit: Nvm I misread the post, deleting is not what OP wants to do. Still gonna keep this because
Ctrl + wis easily the readline shortcut I use the most.While we’re at it:
Alt+ddeletes the next word.
If you use WSL (which you should), you have a normal Bash, so it works
The best part of Windows is the part that isn’t Windows lmao lawd I’m glad I don’t work for the federal government (exclusively Microsoft) anymore
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We have the middle-mouse-button clipboard for this.
Actually, most linux terminal allows you to change shortcut in terminal to just use ctrl-c and ctrl-v.
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If i knew it before, now my brain just knows that it need to press shift on the terminal
The one I use just wants me to do ctrl+shift+v
By default, yes, but most terminal allow you to just open the setting and change the keybinding. And even Ctrl-c will work as you expect, it will copy when text is selected, and terminate command otherwise.
Ctrl+shift+v is paste without formatting in most apps though, so kind of a good habit
Also in some Windows programs. Infuriating
More often it’s Ctrl + backspace that doesn’t work. Ctrl + <- works nearly everywhere.
i’ve noticed ctrl + backspace works in windows 11 where it didn’t work in 10
I hope you don’t expect that to convince me to upgrade. That doesn’t even make up for what they did to the taskbar.
They’ve since updated it to allow you to display labels & not condense multiple windows into one button so it’s better than ever. I can’t believe it took until 11 to center the items, left aligning was a literal pain in the neck especially on ultrawide screens.
I prefer the left alignment, but I’m glad to hear they finally fixed the combined button thing. I still won’t stand for the right click menus and general fuckery with settings pages and keyboard shortcuts.
Getting the little boxes when renaming files. Uuuuuuuuggghhh
SO TRUE OMG, also why the hell does it have to use ctrl + shift for shortcuts aaaa
CTRL-C has been the default key combination to terminate a running process, since forever. Reassigning it to “copy selection” would be very inconvenient.
I like the solution of the ElementaryOS terminal: when you press CTRL-C, it does “the right thing” depending on the context.
ohhh shoot thats cool! ty for the info :)
Alt-B usually works fairly reliably
Why is that actually?
Because terminal emulators are literally the old terminal emulators (ye oldy screens + keyboard combos that looked like a computer but were just IO) and everything modern they do is just a hack.
Terminals with screens? What’s all that newfangled shit?
Nah, whippersnapper, this tech goes all the way back to teletypes. You didn’t get a fancy-shmancy “screen;” instead, it printed out the results of your commands. On actual paper!
Seriously though, that’s why the device files for terminals in Linux are named
tty[$NUM]– “tty” is shorthand for “TeleTYpe.”I believe it’s also why really primitive programs can’t scroll up and do things like writing an entire screen worth of content in order to emulate interactivity (as opposed to seeking the cursor backwards and replacing only the parts the program wants to replace): they’re using a version of the control protocol so primitive that it didn’t have a function to go backwards because teletypes didn’t need it due to physical impossibility. (That’s my theory, anyway – I haven’t dug deep enough into the guts of TERMCAP etc. to be sure. I’m also not actually old enough to have experienced that stuff, despite my joke above.)
Edit: look at this excerpt from
man terminfo(5), for instance:Basic Capabilities The number of columns on each line for the terminal is given by the cols numeric capability. If the terminal is a CRT, then the number of lines on the screen is given by the lines capability. If the terminal wraps around to the beginning of the next line when it reaches the right margin, then it should have the am capability. If the terminal can clear its screen, leaving the cursor in the home position, then this is given by the clear string capability. If the terminal overstrikes (rather than clearing a position when a character is struck over) then it should have the os capability. If the terminal is a printing terminal, with no soft copy unit, give it both hc and os.To this day, the info database entry for your virtual terminal has to specify that it’s capable of deleting a line of text instead of merely striking it out, because some terminals back in the day actually couldn’t!
Because fuck you! That’s why!
Edit: serious answer, I’m pretty sure it’s outputting the key events to the terminal line.
Mind bogglingly infuriating
readline vim mode would like to have a word…
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It also works with Shift so you can highlight and select words at a time.
Hey, I actually knew that shortcut! But it never occurred to me that ctrl+arrow just moves the cursor without selecting anything.
wild stuff.
Ctrl+backspace to delete previous word.
Ctrl+delete to delete next work.
What happens to me is the opposite. I got used to Ctrl+w to delete a word in terminal and accidentally closed browser tabs many times while typing in them.
