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15 Jun, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I spend a lot of time in the terminal. But I never touch Enter or arrow keys. Here is what makes me productive:

Command history navigation

ctrl + p - previous command
ctrl + n - next command
ctrl + r - history search
ctrl + m - enter

Can't imagine my life without these hotkeys
Line navigation

ctrl + a - jump to the beginning
ctrl + e - jump to the end
ctrl + u - del from cursor till the beginning
ctrl + k - del from cursor till the end
Work navigation (slightly more exotic, but I got used to it already)

alt + f - jump one word forward
alt + b - jump one word backward
alt + d - del a word in front of cursor
ctrl + f - jump one char forward
ctrl + b - jump one char backward
ctrl + d - del a symbol under cursor
Screen manipulation

ctrl + l - clear visible area (scrolls up)
cmd + k - this one works only in iterm2, but it's gold - flush the whole output buffer

reset - a tool to fix the terminal that got broken by a partial output of the previous command
Miscellaneous

ctrl + z - stop the current program (but don't terminate it). I use it when I need to drop out of my Vim session to experiment with something. Use `fg` to restore the stopped job.

ctrl + s - stop the output of a crazy command
ctrl + q - resume the output
When I internalized these hotkeys, my terminal experience drastically improved. It's actually less than 20! And most of them come in pairs. So, just 10 things to remember.

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