Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.
Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.
Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.
Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.
Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.
To navigate to the previous folder
To reissue the previous command with a prefix. For example:
To use the argument of the previous command. For example:
The - works with git branching as well for those who didn’t know.
git checkout -will switch to the previously checked out branch so it effectively toggles between your two most recent branches.Oh dang, I never knew about the
!!shortcut. I especially like it for the sudo example, because when it complains I don’t have permission, I can basically yell at it.I’ve seen posts suggesting adding the following to your .bashrc:
cd -… Wow, I can’t believe I never knew about this. I should read more man pages.
!! Is useful too, never knew. Thanks!