Nowadays, the more spending time in Bash shell and typing longer commands, the more precious time is in my mind.
So I spent some time to read about “Command Line Editing” in the bash manual and Google the experience old man left.

Well, here’s the new shortcuts I learned:

ps: the marked ones as em are my favourite.

Basic moves

• Move back one character. Ctrl + b
• Move forward one character. Ctrl + f
• Delete current character. Ctrl + d
• Delete previous character. Backspace
• Undo. Ctrl + -

Moving faster

• Move to the start of line. Ctrl + a
• Move to the end of line. Ctrl + e
• Move forward a word. Meta + f (a word contains alphabets and digits, no symbols)
• Move backward a word. Meta + b
• Clear the screen. Ctrl + l

What is Meta? Meta is your Alt key, normally.
For Mac OSX user, you need to enable it yourself.
Open Terminal > Preferences > Settings > Keyboard, and enable Use option as meta key.
Meta key, by convention, is used for operations on word.

Cut and paste (‘Kill and yank’ for old schoolers)

• Cut from cursor to the end of line. Ctrl + k
• Cut from cursor to the end of word. Meta + d
• Cut from cursor to the start of word. Meta + Backspace
• Cut from cursor to previous whitespace. Ctrl + w
• Paste the last cut text. Ctrl + y
• Loop through and paste previously cut text. Meta + y (use it after Ctrl + y)
• Loop through and paste the last argument of previous commands. Meta + .

Search the command history

• Search as you type. Ctrl + r and type the search term; Repeat Ctrl + r to loop through results.
• Search the last remembered search term. Ctrl + r twice.
• End the search at current history entry. Ctrl + j
• Cancel the search and restore original line. Ctrl + g

Not Enough??

Come on!

• A comprehensive bash editing mode cheatsheet by Peteris Krumin (catonmat.net).
• Vim users! Do you know you can switch to Vi-style editing mode? Here: vi-style cheatsheet.
• Bash command line editing is actually handled by GNU Readline Library. So just dive into Readline manual for everything else.