TerminalShorcuts.md

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+#TL;DR
+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>0</kbd>+<kbd>.</kbd>: inserts last command without the arguments
+
+---
+
+Tested on Ubuntu 18.04 with the default binding settings *(i.e Emacs key bindings)*
+
+---
+
+# You can combine keyboard shortcuts
+
+Let's consider the last command to be:
+
+    mv foo bar
+
+<kbd>up</kbd> , <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>w</kbd>: last command without the last word = `mv foo`
+
+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>0</kbd>+<kbd>.</kbd>: first argument of last command = `mv`
+
+## Some useful shortcuts:
+
+ - <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>.</kbd>: insert last argument from last command *(repeat to go back in history)*
+ - <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>number</kbd>+<kbd>.</kbd>: insert #nth last argument from last command *(repeat to go back in history)*
+ - <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>-</kbd> , <kbd>number</kbd> , <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>.</kbd>, **zsh:** <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>-</kbd>+<kbd>#</kbd>+<kbd>.</kbd>: insert #nth first argument from last command *(repeat to go back in history)*
+
+
+ - **Cut commands** (relative to cursor's position)
+  - <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>w</kbd>: cuts last word
+  - <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>d</kbd>: cuts next word
+  - <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>k</kbd>: cuts everything after
+  - <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>u</kbd>, **zsh:** <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>w</kbd>: cuts everything before
+  - **zsh:** <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>u</kbd>: cuts the entire command *(In bash you can combine <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>u</kbd> , <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>k</kbd>)*
+  - <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>y</kbd>: paste characters previously cut with any **Cut command**. *In bash You can chain **cut commands**, and <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>y</kbd> will paste them all.*
+ - <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>_</kbd>: undo last edit *(very useful when exceeding <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>w</kbd>)*
+ - <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>left</kbd>: move to last word
+ - <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>right</kbd>: move to next word
+ - <kbd>home</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>a</kbd>: move to start of command
+ - <kbd>end</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>e</kbd>: move to end of command
+
+### To see all shortcuts available
+- **bash:** `bind -lp`
+- **zsh:** `bindkey -L`
+
+## Unfortunately there are some limitations
+ "words" only includes `a-zA-Z` characters, so any symbol character will stop word-shortcuts.
+
+So if last argument was a url and you want to erase it with <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>w</kbd> it will be a pain.
+
+E.g: `curl -I --header "Connection: Keep-Alive" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38176514/re-run-previous-command-with-different-arguments`
+
+To erase that **url** using <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>w</kbd>, you'd have to repeat it 12 times.
+
+
+---
+
+
+It would be great to have similar shortcuts that only stops at the **space character**