Emacs Shortcuts on Command Line

Via readline, some of Emacs' keybindings are available on the command line.

I was aware some shortcuts like C-a, C-e, C-r were already working; but was surprised to discover that even more are available, like undo, capitalize word etc.

Via:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-emacs-editing-mode-cheat-sheet/ and from "man readline"

 "C-@"  set-mark
 "C-A"  beginning-of-line
 "C-B"  backward-char
 "C-D"  delete-char
 "C-E"  end-of-line
 "C-F"  forward-char
 "C-G"  abort
 "C-H"  backward-delete-char
 "C-I"  complete
 "C-J"  accept-line
 "C-K"  kill-line
 "C-L"  clear-screen
 "C-M"  accept-line
 "C-N"  next-history
 "C-P"  previous-history
 "C-Q"  quoted-insert
 "C-R"  reverse-search-history
 "C-S"  forward-search-history
 "C-T"  transpose-chars
 "C-U"  unix-line-discard
 "C-V"  quoted-insert
 "C-W"  unix-word-rubout
 "C-Y"  yank
 "C-]"  character-search
 "C-_"  undo
 " " to "/"  self-insert
 "0"  to "9"  self-insert
 ":"  to "~"  self-insert
 "C-?"  backward-delete-char

 Emacs Meta bindings

 "M-C-G"  abort
 "M-C-H"  backward-kill-word
 "M-C-I"  tab-insert
 "M-C-J"  vi-editing-mode
 "M-C-M"  vi-editing-mode
 "M-C-R"  revert-line
 "M-C-Y"  yank-nth-arg
 "M-C-["  complete
 "M-C-]"  character-search-backward
 "M-space"  set-mark
 "M-#"  insert-comment
 "M-&"  tilde-expand
 "M-*"  insert-completions
 "M--"  digit-argument
 "M-."  yank-last-arg
 "M-0"  digit-argument
 "M-1"  digit-argument
 "M-2"  digit-argument
 "M-3"  digit-argument
 "M-4"  digit-argument
 "M-5"  digit-argument
 "M-6"  digit-argument
 "M-7"  digit-argument
 "M-8"  digit-argument
 "M-9"  digit-argument
 "M-<"  beginning-of-history    "M-="  possible-completions    "M->"  end-of-history
 "M-?"  possible-completions
 "M-B"  backward-word
 "M-C"  capitalize-word
 "M-D"  kill-word
 "M-F"  forward-word
 "M-L"  downcase-word
 "M-N"  non-incremental-forward-search-history
 "M-P"  non-incremental-reverse-search-history
 "M-R"  revert-line
 "M-T"  transpose-words
 "M-U"  upcase-word
 "M-Y"  yank-pop
 "M-\"  delete-horizontal-space
 "M-~"  tilde-expand
 "M-C-?"  backward-kill-word
 "M-_"  yank-last-arg

 Emacs Control-X bindings

 "C-XC-G"  abort
 "C-XC-R"  re-read-init-file
 "C-XC-U"  undo
 "C-XC-X"  exchange-point-and-mark
 "C-X("  start-kbd-macro
 "C-X)"  end-kbd-macro
 "C-XE"  call-last-kbd-macro
 "C-XC-?"  backward-kill-line

PS: C-/ also works for undo. Note that C-w is not the same as the Emacs default.

PPS: This is my current .inputrc, mostly the same as /etc/inputrc, except the last 8 lines.

# /etc/inputrc - global inputrc for libreadline
# See readline(3readline) and `info rluserman' for more information.

# Be 8 bit clean.
set input-meta on
set output-meta on

# To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment out
# the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta key,
# which is annoying to those which don't need to type in 8-bit characters.

# set convert-meta off

# try to enable the application keypad when it is called.  Some systems
# need this to enable the arrow keys.
# set enable-keypad on

# see /usr/share/doc/bash/inputrc.arrows for other codes of arrow keys

# do not bell on tab-completion
# set bell-style none
# set bell-style visible

# some defaults / modifications for the emacs mode
$if mode=emacs

# allow the use of the Home/End keys
"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line

# allow the use of the Delete/Insert keys
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[2~": quoted-insert

# mappings for "page up" and "page down" to step to the beginning/end
# of the history
# "\e[5~": beginning-of-history
# "\e[6~": end-of-history

# alternate mappings for "page up" and "page down" to search the history
# "\e[5~": history-search-backward
# "\e[6~": history-search-forward

# mappings for Ctrl-left-arrow and Ctrl-right-arrow for word moving
"\e[1;5C": forward-word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word
"\e[5C": forward-word
"\e[5D": backward-word
"\e\e[C": forward-word
"\e\e[D": backward-word

$if term=rxvt
"\e[8~": end-of-line
"\eOc": forward-word
"\eOd": backward-word
$endif

# for non RH/Debian xterm, can't hurt for RH/Debian xterm
# "\eOH": beginning-of-line
# "\eOF": end-of-line

# for freebsd console
# "\e[H": beginning-of-line
# "\e[F": end-of-line

$endif
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward
"\M-o": "\C-p\C-a\M-f "
set match-hidden-files off
set completion-ignore-case on
set visible-stats on
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
"\M-s": menu-complete