Actually, most linux terminal allows you to change shortcut in terminal to just use ctrl-c and ctrl-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.
Works the same as M-b for me (backwards-word)
Make sure your /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc contains
# mappings for Ctrl-left-arrow and Ctrl-right-arrow for word moving
"\e[1;5C": forward-word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word
"\e[5C": forward-word
"\e[5D": backward-word
"\e\e[C": forward-word
"\e\e[D": backward-word`
Lemmy:
> meme with problem
> SolutionCommentMemeCommentCommentMemeQuestion
Others:
> meme with problem
> BotCommentCommentAwardsAwardsBotShitpostAwardsShitpost
I hope the formatting shows properly… And thanks for this 😁 now to update the .inputrc on my laptop and VPSes
Edit: fix typo and formatting
Idk if you know but you van actually save a post or comment pressing the button “save” under it. It will appear in your profile in a section of saved stuff.
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 + w to 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 + w is easily the readline shortcut I use the most.
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
In a sane editor just press b.
No (although you can easily create such a key mapping if so inclined). To type b character one must first enter the so called Insert mode. Depending on where exactly you wish to type the character, you can enter the Insert mode by typing for example i, a, I, A, o or O.
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!
