On Jun 21, 2011, at 20:20, vadi...@gmail.com wrote: > Sorry I really did not want to start any flame. I just thought that > getting answer from the mailing list would be faster than spending my > time studying source code of the new system. > >> What you should do is relearn the proper way. :-) > > Ok, let me turn my question the other way around. Suppose I typed > > ls -l /some/very/long/path/to/file > > and the file is too big so I want to use -h option. I use a text > terminal so I can not use mouse to position cursor. How people usually > handle this on *BSD systems?
I use Bash and OpenBSD's ksh. In both CTRL-a gets me back to the beginning of the line. A short google search turns up these two handy references for Bash, the favored son of shells on Linux. Vi mode: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-sheet Alternatively, emacs mode: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-emacs-editing-mode-cheat-sheet/
