Comment by eptcyka
6 months ago
The Just in that sentence is wholly unjustified. There are plenty of cli/tui/console/shell shortcuts that are incredibly useful, yet they are wholly undiscoverable and do not work cross-platform, e.g. shell motions between macOS and reasonable OSes.
> shell motions between macOS and reasonable OSes
All the movement commands I know work the same in the terminal on a default install of macOS as it does in the terminal on various Linux distros I use.
Ctrl+A to go to beginning of line
Ctrl+E to go to end of line
Esc, B to jump cursor one word backwards
Esc, F to jump cursor one word forward
Ctrl+W to delete backwards until beginning of word
And so on
Both in current versions of macOS where zsh is the default shell, and in older versions of macOS where bash was the default shell.
Am I misunderstanding what you are referring to by shell motions?
Yea, but ctrl + arrows to move cursor between ‘words’ don’t work, especially sad when SSH’ing in from linux. It works fine when using terminal on macOS - you just use command + arrows.
Works fine for me. Configure your shell.
These are emacs bindings of yore. On macOS and some Linux DEs they also work in UI text fields :)
What happens when you press home or end?
In iTerm at least it goes to the beginning or end of current line.
The number of times I’ve attempted to use Ctrl-U in a Python shell only to discover it doesn’t work…
Haven't seen this - shouldn't this always work on unixy platforms? If using readline/editline it works, and if built without it also works.
It’s an internal, custom, vaguely UNIX-like shell in Windows. Typically I’m running Python from bash; Ctrl-U works under bash, but not Python.
> e.g. shell motions between macOS and reasonable OSes.
I forgot about this since I started NixOS/home-manager everywhere.