Comment on Things you didn't know about GNU readline (2019)Comments−jeffrallen2yCtrl-k kills the rest of the line. Ctrl-u kills the entire line.Ctrl-y yanks stuff back in from your kill ring. Esc-y will then replace the stuff with the previous item in the kill ring.Ctrl-arrows moves a word at a time.Ctrl-r starts a reverse interactive search through the history. Use any editing key, like ctrl-e to start working on the current search result.−akira25012yCtrl-c aborts input and leaves the previous partially edited line visible.Ctrl-g cancels Ctrl-r searches. So if you want to search and then search again you can clear the history position with Ctrl-g.Ctrl-s moves forward if you went too far with Ctrl-r.Ctrl-r twice in a row retrieves the previous search.Alt-u upper cases. Alt-l lower cases. Alt-c capitalizes. From current position to end of word.
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Ctrl-k kills the rest of the line. Ctrl-u kills the entire line.
Ctrl-y yanks stuff back in from your kill ring. Esc-y will then replace the stuff with the previous item in the kill ring.
Ctrl-arrows moves a word at a time.
Ctrl-r starts a reverse interactive search through the history. Use any editing key, like ctrl-e to start working on the current search result.
Ctrl-c aborts input and leaves the previous partially edited line visible.
Ctrl-g cancels Ctrl-r searches. So if you want to search and then search again you can clear the history position with Ctrl-g.
Ctrl-s moves forward if you went too far with Ctrl-r.
Ctrl-r twice in a row retrieves the previous search.
Alt-u upper cases. Alt-l lower cases. Alt-c capitalizes. From current position to end of word.