Bindable Readline Commands (Bash Reference Manual) (original) (raw)

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8.4 Bindable Readline Commands

This section describes Readline commands that may be bound to key sequences. You can list your key bindings by executingbind -P or, for a more terse format, suitable for aninputrc file, bind -p. (See Bash Builtin Commands.) Command names without an accompanying key sequence are unbound by default.

In the following descriptions, point refers to the current cursor position, and mark refers to a cursor position saved by theset-mark command. The text between the point and mark is referred to as the region.

• Commands For Moving
• Commands For Manipulating The History
• Commands For Changing Text
• Killing And Yanking
• Specifying Numeric Arguments
• Letting Readline Type For You
• Keyboard Macros
• Some Miscellaneous Commands