I’ve seen screencasts where users are running irb and as they write text they jump to the beginning/end of the line and beginning/end of words. What are the keystrokes used to do this? Does it depend on the shell that’s being used?
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I’ve seen screencasts where users are running irb and as they write text they jump to the beginning/end of the line and beginning/end of words. What are the keystrokes used to do this? Does it depend on the shell that’s being used?
These are readline commands
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