I'm trying to use zsh in the CLion terminal window (changed my shell to /bin/zsh)
But when I try to move around using Ctrl + Left, Ctrl + Right, Ctrl + E... I get the literal characters D, C and Ctrl + E opens the "Recent files" UI
Is there any way around this? I'd like to use the movement keystrokes as I can with bash.
Tempoz,
Check out the offical Zsh Line Editor doc and the Z-Shell Line Editor guide for tons of detail.
To start, you can see your current mappings by typing bindkey at your prompt. There are two start modes: emacs [default], and vi. If you want to use vi mode, add this to your ~/.zshrc
bindkey -v
and source it (or restart your shell, or restart your IDE). Check out how the bindkey output has changed.
If you decide you want to change or augment your key mappings, use bind in your ~/.zshrc to reassign, or add to your key map.
# Example key binding change
# bindkey key-sequence editor-command
bindkey '^Z' vi-kill-line
You will also probably want to fix your $PATH - all the JetBrains products do it incorrectly. See this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/51006003/1089228
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I'm trying to update my bashrc file in ubuntu with some environment variables.
I can do this using below command.
echo 'export APP=/opt/tinyos-2.x/apps' >> ~/.bashrc
But I want to do it manually, meaning open the file with vim editor then add it.
The problem here is when I open the bashrc file the end line is "fi" and when I reach there and press insert and then enter to go to new line it stays at the same line and moves the fi word only or create A or C or B random characters.
May I know please some commands to handle this bashrc file so that I could add a new line and then my variables over there?
I've tried to look online but didn't find what am looking for.
Since you didn't specify if you have terminal access only or also GUI.
If you have terminal access only, any editor would do it.
Popular editors like nano or vim come installed by default in most Ubuntu releases.
To use nano, in your terminal, type
nano ~/.bashrc
Then press Ctrl + w +v to go to the end, add what you want to add, the Ctrl + o to save changes, Ctrl +x to exit.
You will need to log out and log back on, or run source ~/.profile to make your changes available to your bash environment.
Here's what you can do in vim.
Press the letter G. It will take you to the last line.
Press the letter O. It will allow you to insert text after the current lne.
Type in your content - export APP=/opt/tinyos-2.x/apps
Press the ESC key get out of editing mode.
Press the key :. It will allow you type commands.
Type wq followed by Enter. This will save the file and quit vim.
You are done.
As you are using Vim/Vi editor you need to use i/insert key to start editing, then for saving use escape & then wq to save and exit. For More detailed instructions please visit this link
Honestly, learning vim in a week (or even in a day) is tough. Took me more than a month to actually be productive on it as mh daily editor. But just to tell you. Go to the line after which you want to ass a new line using H-J-K-L or arrow keys. Then presss o. It'll spawn a new line below it and go into insert mode as well. Then write and press Esc. Enter :wq.
When using zsh, I sometimes accidentally press Escape out of habit, expecting it to clear the entire line as it does in Windows. Instead, it goes into a mode that I'm not sure how to get out of. The cursor goes back one character, and some keys perform some special commands, but all I really want to do is get out of this mode and be able to press Ctrl+U to clear the line.
Searching around has been tough - I get results for escaping characters.
Short answer: press a.
Medium answer: press a, then enter bindkey -e.
Long answer: Like a lot of UNIX shells, zsh has an emacs-like mode and a vi-like mode. You're in vi-like mode, and ESC takes you out of the vi-like insert mode. a puts you back into insert mode, with the cursor after the current character. (Sorry for the two different uses of "mode," but it is the accepted terminology in both cases.)
bindkey -e overrides the settings from the rc files and puts zsh into emacs mode, which only has one mode (i.e., no "ESC mode"), so this won't bother you any more. Unfortunately, it won't carry over to your next shell invocation. bindkey -v would switch from emacs mode back to vi mode.
In the absence of any other configuration, zsh defaults to emacs mode, so unless there's something in one of the rc files, the likely culprit is that the EDITOR variable is some form of vi, which causes zsh to default to vi mode. If you don't like vi mode, then you should probably hunt down what part of the system-wide or user-specific configuration is causing zsh to default to vi mode and turn it off by removing it or overriding it in one of those rc files.
If everything else fails, when you're in ESC mode, type :w then Enter to save, and then :q to exit. You can also type :wq and Enter
Ctrl + l is the default shortcut for clear lines in iTerm2, I want to change it to Cmd + l, but can't find this action:
BTW I'm using zsh.
Ctrl-L or "form feed" is part of the ANSI/VT100 protocol (http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/scripting/terminalcodes), it's not specific to iTerm2.
Your best best is to use Applescript to send Ctrl-L to the terminal when Cmd-L is pressed.
This is an zsh binding is not an iTerm binding. Ctrl+l is the default binding for the clear-screen widget in zsh. The fact that it also works in bash (and maybe other shells) is merely convention. In bash - or rather readline, bash's command line editor - it is the default binding for a command that is also named clear-screen.
Generally, you can change a key binding in zsh with the command bindkey KEYSEQUENCE WIDGET. Unfortunately not all modifiers might be supported by iTerm2 for use with the shell. You can test, whether it is supported by running cat -v and then pressing the desired key combination. If Cmd+l is supported, than the output shown should be more than just "l". If it something more or other than just "l", then you can use the output to bind it. For example if cat -v shows "^[l" than you can bind it with bindkey '^[l' clear-screen and if you want to remove the default binding, you can do so with bindkey -r '^l'.
I recently switch from bash to zsh shell. To be more precise, the oh-my-zsh
Very nice, but the shortcut I most often use; jumping to the beginning/end of the line doesn't work anymore. From the docs it should be
ctrl + A --> beginning
ctrl + E --> end
However, when I do that I get the following
$~> my-command
$~> my-command^A # did a ctrl + A here
Although I see this working by everybody else, on my system something seems to be different. Any suggestions what that might be ?
If you're wondering why this happened: You likely have $EDITOR or $VISUAL set to vi/vim which made zsh default to the vi keymap which doesn't use ctrl+a for moving the caret.
Adding bindkey -e to ~/.zshrc will restore the old behavior (emacs keymap).
you don't have to config the Ctrl+A behavior if you use default keymap (emacs keymap). It does what you are expecting.
However if you set your zle to use vi keymap, you have to define the keybind for vi-beginning-of-line. same for Ctrl+E.
So check which keymap did you set in config. If it was vi, try pressing ESC then ^ and $ should do what you want.
zsh .zshrc
bindkey "^A" vi-beginning-of-line
I just recently switched from bash to zsh, however I miss my Alt+LeftArrowKey and Alt+RightArrowKey to go back and forth a word at a time.
Right now, if I press Alt+LeftArrowKey I go back a couple of letters and then I'm stuck. I won't go any further backwards and it won't back to the end of the line with Alt+RightArrowKey as I would expect. I can't even use the arrow keys to go to the end of the line, only to the second to last. Can't input new chars on the line either or indeed delete.
How do I get my beloved shortcut back?
I'm on Mac OS X using Terminal if that's important.
Run cat then press keys to see the codes your shortcut send.
(Press Ctrl+C to kill the cat when you're done.)
For me, (ubuntu, konsole, xterm) pressing Alt+← sends ^[[1;3D, so i would put in my .zshrc
bindkey "^[[1;3C" forward-word
bindkey "^[[1;3D" backward-word
(Actually I prefer to use Ctrl + arrow to move word by word, like in a normal textbox under windows or linux gui.)
Related question: Fix key settings (Home/End/Insert/Delete) in .zshrc when running Zsh in Terminator Terminal Emulator
For anyone using iTerm, regardless of shell
All of the solutions offered here take a backwards approach in my opinion. You're essentially telling your shell to listen for some esc sequence or other key binding you have set in your terminal, creating compatibility issues when you switch shells (If you SSH into some other shell, switch from BASH to ZSH, etc and you lose some if not all of your keybindings).
Most shells have a set of default sequences that come pre-bound. Furthermore, while they aren't 100% consistent, they're close enough. So the easiest way that I have found to create keybinding for a particular action in the shell is to tell your terminal application to bind to the default keybindings that are consistent across shells.
I wrote a compressive solution for getting your terminal to respond as close to native mac keybindings here
Open the iTerm preferences ⌘+, and navigate to the Profiles tab (the Keys tab can be used, but adding keybinding to your profile allows you to save your profile and sync it to multiple computers) and keys sub-tab and enter the following:
Move cursor one word left
⌥+← Send Hex Codes: 0x1b 0x62
Move cursor one word right
⌥+→ Send Hex Codes: 0x1b 0x66
And that should give you the desired behavior not just in ZSH, but also if you SSH into a server running BASH, irb/pry, node etc.
Adding the following to ~/.zshrc worked for me on OSX Mountain Lion.
bindkey -e
bindkey '[C' forward-word
bindkey '[D' backward-word
On MacOS High Siera 10.13.6 or Mojave 10.14.2 and using iTerm2 with ZSH
To move from words I have to put like this:
bindkey "\e\e[D" backward-word
bindkey "\e\e[C" forward-word
Another solutions doesn't work fo rme
For iTerm, go to where this screenshot shows and select "Natural Text Editing"
if you already had some key mappings it will ask below, select accordingly not to lose any special bindings you set before. however, if you don't remember adding any bindings or just started using iTerm (on this machine), you will be safe to choose "Remove"
Though not strictly answering your question, the default binding for forward-word and backward-word are alt-f resp. alt-b.
This works everywhere, does not require you to leave the home row, and has a nice mnemonic property (f=forward, b=back), while also being consistent with ctrl-f and ctrl-b being forward-character and backward-character.
Rip out your arrow keys!
To make it work for me I used this answer, however I had to swap the codes (left <-> right)
⌥+← Send Hex Codes: 0x1b 0x66
⌥+→ Send Hex Codes: 0x1b 0x62
and add the following to my ~/.zshrc
bindkey -e
bindkey "^[b" backward-word
bindkey '^[f' forward-word
On MacOS Monterey, use the following in ~/.zshrc to make SHIFT + Arrows jump words:
bindkey "^[[1;2C" forward-word
bindkey "^[[1;2D" backward-word
And this for Option + Arrows:
bindkey "^[^[[C" forward-word
bindkey "^[^[[D" backward-word
On Mavericks (10.9.4) the code is 1;5... so for binding alt with arrows I have my .zshrc using this:
bindkey "^[[1;5C" forward-word
bindkey "^[[1;5D" backward-word
You can use CTRL+V and then the command you want to use
in Yosemite use Rob's solution
In zsh, you can use the bindkey command to see keyboard shortcuts.
Use bindkey to explore options that are available without custom keybindings.
Namely ^[b to move backward a word and ^[f to move forward a word.
These keybindings work with Alacritty on Arch Linux, just add them to the ~/.zshrc file
bindkey -e
bindkey "^[[3~" delete-char # Key Del
bindkey "^[[5~" beginning-of-buffer-or-history # Key Page Up
bindkey "^[[6~" end-of-buffer-or-history # Key Page Down
bindkey "^[[H" beginning-of-line # Key Home
bindkey "^[[F" end-of-line # Key End
bindkey "^[[1;3C" forward-word # Key Alt + Right
bindkey "^[[1;3D" backward-word # Key Alt + Left
If you're using iTerm in CSI u mode, the bindings for your .zshrc end up being:
bindkey '^[[1;3D' backward-word
bindkey '^[[1;3C' forward-word
If you want iTerminal to respect Emacs style shortcuts like ^Mf and ^Mb for forward/back a word I found best way to use this tip:
Making iTerm to translate 'meta-key' in the same way as in other OSes