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Answer by Benjamin W. for bash/readline for "move forward by...

There are Readline commands that let you move and treat words like the shell treats them for splitting: shell-forward-word and shell-backward-word1.If you want to bind them to Ctrl+Meta+f and...

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Answer by elliot42 for bash/readline for "move forward by...

You can use vim movement commands in readline/bash even while still in emacs movement mode. The relevant readline commands are vi-fWord and vi-bWord. You can bind them to keyboard shortcuts such as...

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bash/readline for "move forward by whitespace-delimited word?"

In bash/readline, if you want to navigate through a command, often you have things like:cat /home/foo/bar.txt /home/bar/baz.txtIf my cursor is at the end of the line (^e), and I want to move back to...

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