Useful keyboard shortcuts

This post provides useful keyboard shotcuts.

• bash
• vim

bash

Moving the cursor

• Ctrl + a: Go to the beginning of the line
• Ctrl + e: Go to the end of the line
• Alt + b: Back (left) one word
• Alt + f: Forward (right) one word
• Ctrl + b: Backward one character
• Ctrl + f: Forward one character

vim

Navigation

• k: Move cursor upwards
• j: Move cursor downwards
• l: Move cursor right side

• h: Move cursor left side

• w: Jump forwards to the start of a word
• e: Jump forwards to the end of a word

• b: Jump backwards to the start of a word

• 0: Jump to the start of the line
• ^: Jump to the first non-blank character of the line
• $: Jump to the end of the line

References

• How-to: Bash Keyboard Shortcuts