[PLUG] Terminal shortcuts

[Russell Senior]

F1 in the terminal will bring up the terminal help page, there is a
keyboard shortcuts link that lists them.

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:37 PM, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

> You can cut/paste with ctrl-shift-c/ctrl-shift-v in gnome terminal,
> afaik.  What don't you like about up-arrow?  That you have to backspace
> over things?  There's probably a delete-word binding, Ctrl-W.  So, maybe
> Ctrl-P Ctrl-W?
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:09 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I prefer Gnome terminal because it is more visually configurable than
>> others that I have tried.
>>
>> Often I need to repeat a command with a different object, so the up
>> arrow doesn't save typing. For example:
>>
>>         mkvmerge -i <moviename> (and repeat with a different movie)
>>
>> It annoys me that I keep having to re-type 'mkvmerge -i' over and over
>> again. I could copy it to the clipboard and paste it in, except that I
>> use the clipboard to get <moviename>, which overwrites the clipboard.
>> And besides, 'mkvmerge -i' is only one of several such commands that I
>> have to keep re-typing.
>>
>> What would be really cool would be an 'auto-text' feature as in a word
>> processor, where you can create a series of letters (any length) and
>> assign it a short sequence of letters that you can type to invoke the
>> entire series of letters.
>>
>> Web searching found me Ctrl-r, but if I type mkv- it pops up the entire
>> preceding command, including <moviename>.
>>
>> OK, this is Linux, where someone a long time ago decided to name a root
>> folder /usr to save typing just one tiny letter. I mean, seriously.
>> There has to be a way to save constantly re-typing at the command line.
>> Any suggestions?
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