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[โ€“] lemmybenny@lemmy.world 135 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Control + Backspace deletes entire words rather than individual characters

[โ€“] SevFTW@feddit.de 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Control + Arrows also moves your text cursor by whole words. Combine it with shift and you can easily select a bunch of text without the mouse.

Another one that took me far too long to learn: Shift + Tab will do the same thing as tab (next element) in reverse

[โ€“] minthenry@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also shift+pos1/end selects whole rows or parts from where the cursor is.

[โ€“] BassaForte@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Learn vim and you can completely forget this information

And once you do, you can use them in bash by running (or adding to your ~/.bashrc) set -o vi!

[โ€“] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 1 year ago

It's the Home/End keys on US keyboard layouts. I use them all the time when coding.

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