On: More Things I Wish I’d Known About Bash

[antoineMoPa]

"Sigh. Hit ‘up’, ‘left’ until at the ‘p’ and type ‘e’ and return.". My solution for this one would be :

UP CTRL-A RIGHT RIGHT e

Which needs less thinking and 6 keystrokes instead of 8.

[hiq → antoineMoPa]

I don't like to use arrow keys, and on my system the following works: CTRL-P CTRL-A CTRL-F CTRL-F e I also prefer this to the solution in the article.

[chrissoundz → hiq]

Potentially of interest: https://github.com/Fakerr/goto sort of like the easymotion vim plugin.

[Domenic_S → antoineMoPa]

Even better: https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

[cryptonector → antoineMoPa]

But that requires modifiers. Insert modal vs. not flame war.