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If you want to become a Zsh poweruser you should make sure to effectively use keybindings.

First of all: use ‘bindkey -e’ to to enable emacs style or ‘bindkey -v’ for vi style. If you don’t know what you should prefer: use emacs style. Execute ‘bindkey’ to get a list of currently active key bindings in your Zsh.

A nifty feature we have in grml’s Zsh configuration is the insert-last-typed-word keybinding. If you don’t use grml’s Zsh configuration just execute:

 
insert-last-typed-word() { zle insert-last-word -- 0 -1 };
zle -N insert-last-typed-word;
bindkey "\em" insert-last-typed-word

Then pressing ‘Esc-m’ will insert the last typed word in your commandline. Give it a try and learn to love it. :)

Another must-know is edit-command-line (available in grml’s Zsh configuration by default as well):

autoload -U edit-command-line
zle -N edit-command-line
bindkey '\ee' edit-command-line

Press ‘Esc-e’ for editing the command line in $EDITOR.

Oh and please make me a favour and use ‘ctrl-d’ instead of executing ‘exit’. :)

This entry was posted by mika on Thursday, December 4th, 2008 at 14:42 and is filed under Computer, English. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.