Let's consider the last command to be: mv foo bar up , Ctrl+w: last command without the last word = `mv foo` Alt+0+.: first argument of last command = `mv` ## Some useful shortcuts: - Alt+.: insert last argument from last command *(repeat to go back in history)* - Alt+number+.: insert #nth last argument from last command *(repeat to go back in history)* - Alt+- , number , Alt+., **zsh:** Alt+-+#+.: insert #nth first argument from last command *(repeat to go back in history)* - **Cut commands** (relative to cursor's position) - Ctrl+w: cuts last word - Alt+d: cuts next word - Ctrl+k: cuts everything after - Ctrl+u, **zsh:** Alt+w: cuts everything before - **zsh:** Ctrl+u: cuts the entire command *(In bash you can combine Ctrl+u , Ctrl+k)* - Ctrl+y: paste characters previously cut with any **Cut command**. *In bash you can chain **cut commands**, and Ctrl+y will paste them all.* - Ctrl+_: undo last edit *(very useful when exceeding Ctrl+w)* - Ctrl+left: move to last word - Ctrl+right: move to next word - home or Ctrl+a: move to start of command - end or Ctrl+e: 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 Ctrl+w 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 Ctrl+w, you'd have to repeat it 12 times. --- It would be great to have similar shortcuts that only stops at the **space character**