20 Nov
2018
20 Nov
'18
4:18 a.m.
On 2018-11-18 22:15, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Sun, 18 Nov 2018, Chet Ramey wrote:
I first learned about shell shortcuts from an emacs user, and I briefly
considered picking up emacs... Then I found out I could enable vi
keybinding in my shell and squashed that impulse. :)
The only emacs keybindings I still use in the shell are ^R for searching
my history, ^W for deleting words, and occasional use of ^K for killing
text to EOL. Other than ^R, I swap between the vi and emacs bindings
for those others, just depending on where my cursor is on the line.
--
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
KF5LGQ
It's not clear how widespread this is, but
on my Mac OS X system,
emacs key bindings are pervasive. TextEdit, text controls in apps and
browsers, pretty much everything understands the basic emacs
keybinding.
As a Mac user I never noticed that, but I'll admit to using EMACS key
bindings in the various shells, despite being a VI user... A bit like
using CSH at the terminal, but never for scripting :-)