You can cut/paste with ctrl-shift-c/ctrl-shift-v in gnome terminal, afaik. What don't you like about up-arrow? That you have to backspace over things? There's probably a delete-word binding, Ctrl-W. So, maybe Ctrl-P Ctrl-W?
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:09 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > I prefer Gnome terminal because it is more visually configurable than > others that I have tried. > > Often I need to repeat a command with a different object, so the up > arrow doesn't save typing. For example: > > mkvmerge -i <moviename> (and repeat with a different movie) > > It annoys me that I keep having to re-type 'mkvmerge -i' over and over > again. I could copy it to the clipboard and paste it in, except that I > use the clipboard to get <moviename>, which overwrites the clipboard. > And besides, 'mkvmerge -i' is only one of several such commands that I > have to keep re-typing. > > What would be really cool would be an 'auto-text' feature as in a word > processor, where you can create a series of letters (any length) and > assign it a short sequence of letters that you can type to invoke the > entire series of letters. > > Web searching found me Ctrl-r, but if I type mkv- it pops up the entire > preceding command, including <moviename>. > > OK, this is Linux, where someone a long time ago decided to name a root > folder /usr to save typing just one tiny letter. I mean, seriously. > There has to be a way to save constantly re-typing at the command line. > Any suggestions? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
