Being Fast from the Keyboard: Line Editing Shortcuts, History Search, Tab Completion and CLI Completions
Working with Ctrl-A/E/W/K/Y, Alt-. and Ctrl-R instead of the arrow keys brings most of your speed in the terminal; bash, zsh and PSReadLine share the same shortcut family. We show with a real experiment in three shells how history stores secrets, and cover the right history settings, .NET 10's dotnet completions script, ng completion and the fixes for two completion traps we hit in zsh.
14 Nov 2026
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