Show HN: Tip – use ctrl and w to rapid delete in terminal / shell

[abpai]

hours of life saved :)

[jdmoreira]

https://github.com/0nn0/terminal-mac-cheatsheet/wiki/Termina...

[cwt → jdmoreira]

This is glorious!

[stevekemp]

This handling comes from readline, rather than your terminal/shell.

Readline has many shortcuts available here's a random assortment:

http://teohm.com/blog/2012/01/04/shortcuts-to-move-faster-in...

[ksherlock → stevekemp]

^W, ^U, ^C, ^S, ^Q, ^Z, etc are handled by the terminal driver. See stty -a

[wsc981]

Useful tip. Made me realise ctrl-s works to go to start of line and ctrl-e to end of line. This is probably common knowledge for any Linux user but for me as a Mac user it's a revelation.

[amk_ → wsc981]

You mean ctrl-a for beginning-of-line?

[atsaloli → amk_]

Yeah, it's ctrl-A for start of line.

Here's a good cheatsheet: http://www.bigsmoke.us/readline/shortcuts

[nstart]

Thank you! Didn't know this till today.