Keyboard Shortcuts every Command Line Hacker should know about GNU Readline

• fzf

  405 59,462 9.5 Go

  :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

vi bindings aren't worth running into weird problems imo. it took me less than a minute to hit an incompatibility with fzf.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/1238

• hstr

  36 3,904 3.7 C

  bash and zsh shell history suggest box - easily view, navigate, search and manage your command history.

I was doing history grep too until someone on HN told me about hstr:

https://github.com/dvorka/hstr

• WorkOS

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• rlwrap

  14 2,340 2.2 C

  A readline wrapper

Friends if you dont know: you can add readline support to LOTS of things, especially custom scripts and tools with a prompt by just calling the program with rlwrap.

> rlwrap is a 'readline wrapper', a small utility that uses the GNU Readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any command.

https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap

• zsh-vi-search

  2 10 0.0 Shell

  Adds support for searching the current line (in normal vi mode) to zsh.

And add search support: https://github.com/soheilpro/zsh-vi-search

• fzf-fish-integration

  21 1,797 6.4 Shell

  🔍🐟 Fzf plugin for Fish

I missed the shell integration when switching to Fish a couple of years ago. fzf.fish saved the day, I wouldn't be without the keybindings now (Ctrl+Alt+F is roughly the equivalent of `*`)

https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

• keybindings

  1 11 10.0

  Bring basic readline/emacs keybindings to every text-input in MacOS (by alexdavid)

Ugh this destroyed my productivity too for a while. I even wrote an entire blog post about my woes and different experiments to get back to getting consistent shortcuts across terminal and GUI apps here: https://alexdav.id/2020/07/12/text-manipulation-and-modifier.... GTK key themes didn't end up working out for me, and I ended up with a custom QMK solution, but it's not great.

Note for people still using macos, you can enable many more readline shortcuts by creating a special file at ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict. I made a repo that simplifies the process to just a single git clone when setting up a new machine: https://github.com/alexdavid/keybindings

• keyd

  136 2,293 7.9 C

  A key remapping daemon for linux.

keyd is a really nice key remapping daemon that support application-specific remappings. You could use it to emulate readline bindings in Chrome. Or if you can't figure out how to emulate something, at least bind it to noop so it doesn't mess you up any more.

https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd

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• libnklabs

  4 20 5.3 C

  NK Labs Common Library

  

Two issues with readline: it's GPL and it's big. For embedded systems intended to become products you really need something else. My tiny variant is this, but for sure there are many others:

https://github.com/nklabs/libnklabs

("nkreadline" has editing, tab-completion (for embedded "nkcli" commands) and history)

• linenoise

  6 3,621 2.6 C

  A small self-contained alternative to readline and libedit

In a similar vein there's also Linenoise form the creator of Redis.

https://github.com/antirez/linenoise

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