ANSI escapes and shortcuts



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Weren't you frustrated with the the odd keyboard shortcuts of bash?
When one lacks common sense, do not beat you understanding!
Turn this frustration into a joke with this!

Keyboard A word? Joke Explanation
Ctrl + A stArt Like Home. Move cursor to start of line
Ctrl + E End Like End. Move cursor to end of line
Ctrl + B Back Like <-
Ctrl + F Forward Like ->
Ctrl + C Cill Cills the programm! "Kill" is a misspelling!
Ctrl + D Done Close the stdio. Generally stops dumb programms...
Ctrl + G Gone This shortcut seems gone...
Ctrl + H Hide Why bother using backspace when you can just type Ctrl + H to delete?
Ctrl + I autocomplIIte Why bother pressing Tab when you can just type Ctrl + I to autocomplite?
Ctrl + J egJecute Why bother pressing Enter when you can just type Ctrl + J to egjecute your line?
Ctrl + K taKe off This is to strip the from cursor to EOL because Shift + End; Del is for lazy.
Ctrl + U remUve This is to strip the from cursor to start because Shift + Home + Del is for nerds.
Ctrl + L eLase A shortcut for cleal that elase the screen. "Erase" is a misspelling!
Ctrl + M eMter Generate \r because it happens to also be ^M
Ctrl + P uP A false shortcut for the up arrow. Seek previous command
Ctrl + N dowN A false shortcut for the down arrow. Seek next command
Ctrl + O Oh WTF Longcut for Enter; Up
Ctrl + R Research Research in your history...
Ctrl + Q No Like Pause, but harder to type. And doesn't unpause.
Ctrl + S stop it Like Pause, but harder to type. And only unpause
Ctrl + T swapT The most usefull of all! Swap just 2 characters! Wow, now sl is ls
Ctrl + V reserVed Reserved for unuse
Ctrl + W Wipe Wipe the previous word?
Ctrl + X Lol Like Home but only half of the time...
Ctrl + Y Yeet! Yeet what waz in your... clipboard..?! Ctrl + V is reserVed
Ctrl + Z Zap! Goto background process execution...
Ctrl + [ es[ape Generate \e (aka \x1B) because ESC is too fancy also called ^[
Der power btn Nothing You have to unplug the darn thing, idiƶt.

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