command line editing

Ctrl key	Description	Vim	Alt Key	Description	Vim
`Ctrl-A`	Move to BOL	`^`
`Ctrl-E`	Move to EOL	`$`
`Ctrl-F`	Move to one char Right	`l`	`Alt-F`	Move to one word Right	`w`
`Ctrl-B`	Move to one char Left	`h`	`Alt-B`	Move to one word Left	`b`
`Ctrl-D`	Del current char (DEL)	`x`	`Alt-D`	Del from current char till word end	`de`
`Ctrl-H`	Backspace
`Ctrl-U`	Cut (In Buf) till BOL	`d0`	`Alt-U`	Uppercase current word	`veU`
`Ctrl-L`	Clear		`Alt-L`	Lowercase current word	`veu`
			`Alt-C`	Uppercase current char, move to word end	`vUe`
`Ctrl-K`	Cut (In Buf) till EOL	`D`
`Ctrl-W`	Cut (In Buf) till word beginning	`db`
`Ctrl-Y`	Paste buffer value (by cut)
`Ctrl-_`	Undo last change `C-_` works too
`Ctrl-T`	Swap current and previous char	`xp`	`Alt-T`	swap current and previous words
`C-@` and `C-x C-x`	C-@ set marker and C-x C-x to swap current pos with the mark

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E.g. Alt-3 Alt-B go to 3 words backwards same as in vim 3b

Except for the above table, there are still other useful short-cuts:

E.g

C-R to search history backwords
C-S search history forwards
C-x C-e to edit current command line in $EDITOR
A-. to insert the last argument of last command
C-] search next char, C-A-] search previous char (I remapped it in ZSH, see Zsh section)

Zsh config for command line editing

Ctrl-X Ctrl-E

ctrl-x ctrl-e open $EDITOR to edit the current commandline. In Zsh:

#edit command in vi ctrl-x ctrl-e
autoload edit-command-line
zle -N edit-command-line
bindkey '^X^e' edit-command-line

find next/pre char

similar as f/F in vim:

#ctrl-] to search next char in command line same as 'f' in vim
bindkey '^]' vi-find-next-char
#alt-] to search previous char in command line same as 'F' in vim
bindkey '\e]' vi-find-prev-char

Other Zsh keybinds

Alt-' : single quote the whole line
Alt-? : do "which-command" on the current typed command

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