Weren't you frustrated with 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? | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Ctrl + N | dowN | |
| Ctrl + O | Oh WTF | |
| Ctrl + R | Research | Research in your history? How does that work? |
| 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 ^[ |
| Der power btn | Nothing | You have to unplug the darn thing, idiöt. |
Here let's get serious. I'm using C-like string escape codes and dark colored variables for convenience.
| Code | In short | In more relevant details |
|---|---|---|
| \e[#A | ↑Up | Moves cursor up # cells up |
| \e[#B | ↓Down | Moves cursor down # cells up |
| \e[#C | →Skip | Moves cursor right # cells up |
| \e[#D | ←Prev | Moves cursor left # cells up |
| \e[1+Y;1+XH | Goto | Moves cursor to (X;Y) |
| \e[J | Clear | Clear from cursor to end of screen |
| \e[1J | Clear from start of screen to cursor | |
| \e[2J | Clear screen | |
| \e[3J | Clear screen and scrollback buffer | |
| \e[K | Clear Line | Clear from cursor to end of line |
| \e[1K | Clear from start of line to cursor | |
| \e[2K | Clear line | |
| \e[…m | Style | Style |
| \e[1+Y₀;1+Y₁r | Split — | Set the scrolling region from 1+Y₀ to 1+Y₁ |
| \e[s | Save pos | Save cursor pos |
| \e[u | Restore pos | Restore cursor pos |
| Style | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00 | Reset | Bold | Dark | Italics | Underline | Blink | Fast Blink | Inverted | Invisible | |
| 10 | Default font | Font 1 | Font 2 | Font 3 | Font 4 | Font 5 | Font 6 | Font 7 | Font 8 | Font 9 |
| 20 | Fraktur | Underline×2 | Normal light | Italics Off | Underline Off | Blink Off | Propor-space | Inverted Off | Invisible Off | Strikethrough Off |
| 30 | Black | Red | Green | Yellow | Blue | Magenta | Cyan | Light grey | More clrs | Default |
| 40 | Black BG | Red BG | Green BG | Yellow BG | Blue BG | Magenta BG | Cyan BG | Light grey BG | More BG clrs | Default BG |
| 50 | Propor-space Off | In a square | In a circle | Lower underline | Square/circle Off | Lower underline Off | Underline clr | Default underline clr | ||
| 60 | Right line | Right line×2 | Left line | Left line×2 | Ideogram stress | Side-line/stress Off | ||||
| 70 | Superscript | Subscript | Super/subscript Off | |||||||
| 80 | ||||||||||
| 90 | Dark grey | Bright Red | Bright Green | Bright Yellow | Bright Blue | Bright Magenta | Bright Cyan | White | More colors | Bright default |
| 100 | Dark grey BG | Bright Red BG | Bright Green BG | Bright Yellow BG | Bright Blue BG | Bright Magenta BG | Bright Cyan BG | White BG | More BG colors | Bright Default BG |