Is there an emacs key to ‘delete this entire word’?
like if I’m using ls to look for a file, then I want to cat a file, I press up to get the previous command, ctrl+a to go to the beginning of the line and then spam d to delete letters. It’s be much better if there was a ‘delete until whitespace’ button.
Generally in emacs ctrl+whatever operates on characters, while alt+whatever operates on words. For example, you can do ctrl+f/b to go forward/backword a character, and alt+f/b to go forward/backward a word.
ctrl+a and ctrl+e are from Emacs.
Is there an emacs key to ‘delete this entire word’?
like if I’m using ls to look for a file, then I want to cat a file, I press up to get the previous command, ctrl+a to go to the beginning of the line and then spam d to delete letters. It’s be much better if there was a ‘delete until whitespace’ button.
M-d, aka alt+d
Generally in emacs ctrl+whatever operates on characters, while alt+whatever operates on words. For example, you can do ctrl+f/b to go forward/backword a character, and alt+f/b to go forward/backward a word.
Oh yeah, that’s way better. Thanks!
I’m using zsh and trying the emacs mode, that alt operates on words is the secret sauce I was looking for.
Yes but OP is using vi bindings for line navigation.