General Bash-ery

• Ctrl + a, move to the beginning of the line
• Ctrl + e, move to the end of the line
• Ctrl + k, Cut the Line after the cursor to the clipboard.
• Ctrl + u, Cut the Line before the cursor to the clipboard.
• Ctrl + y, paste last value in clipboard
• Meta + y, cycle through previous values in clipboard

Use Ctrl-r to reverse search command history and Ctrl+s to forward search

stty -ixon # enabled forward search with Ctrl+s by disabling XON/XOFF flow control

• export EDITOR=/bin/vi to make vi the default editor
• Ctrl+x+e to edit current command in default text editor.
  • Opens the current command line in the default editor. For vi you can exit with :cq to cancel the command.
  • fc, fixed command opens the last command in the editor