Bindable Readline Commands (Bash Reference Manual)

8.4 Bindable Readline Commands

• Commands For Moving		Moving about the line.
• Commands For History		Getting at previous lines.
• Commands For Text		Commands for changing text.
• Commands For Killing		Commands for killing and yanking.
• Numeric Arguments		Specifying numeric arguments, repeat counts.
• Commands For Completion		Getting Readline to do the typing for you.
• Keyboard Macros		Saving and re-executing typed characters
• Miscellaneous Commands		Other miscellaneous commands.

This section describes Readline commands that may be bound to key sequences. You can list your key bindings by executing bind -P /@w or, for a more terse format, suitable for an inputrc file, bind -p /@w . (See Bash Builtins.) 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 the set-mark command. The text between the point and mark is referred to as the region.