Do you know where I can find a list of hotkeys along the lines of C-a? I personally created my own hotkey (shift left arrow) but learning standard ones would probably be good.
C-a beginning of line
C-k kill text from cursor to end of line
C-e end of line
M-b move cursor backwards by a word
M-f move cursor forwards by a word
C-w delete backwards by a word
C-h backspace (great when real backspace doesn't work)
C-r reverse search through command history
(C-w works in Vim(insert mode) and Emacs, but kills me when I try to type it in a browser window to delete a word... Good-bye window and/or tab)
In zsh I actually have M-w bound to the normal backspace-by-a-word and C-w bound to the vim version which will do things like count '/' as a word separator so that I can easily backspace through sections of a path rather than be required to delete the whole thing (or nothing).
Yea, but you have to hit Ctrl+Option or Cmd+Option (can't remember which off the top of my head) for Meta though, instead of just Option (which is what most people bind to Meta in Terminal.app or iTerm.app).
You can also tweak the behavior of readline (for Bash and other applications) and custom make your own key combinations by editing your ~/.inputrc file. A random example from mine:
# Insert double quotes & set cursor between them
"\C-x\"": "\"\"\eb"
#
# Insert single quotes & set cursor between them
"\C-x'": "''\eb"
