Is there an emacs key to ‘delete this entire word’?
like if I’m using ls to look for a file, then I want to cat a file, I press up to get the previous command, ctrl+a to go to the beginning of the line and then spam d to delete letters. It’s be much better if there was a ‘delete until whitespace’ button.
Generally in emacs ctrl+whatever operates on characters, while alt+whatever operates on words. For example, you can do ctrl+f/b to go forward/backword a character, and alt+f/b to go forward/backward a word.
ctrl+a and ctrl+e are from Emacs.
Yes but OP is using vi bindings for line navigation.
Is there an emacs key to ‘delete this entire word’?
like if I’m using ls to look for a file, then I want to cat a file, I press up to get the previous command, ctrl+a to go to the beginning of the line and then spam d to delete letters. It’s be much better if there was a ‘delete until whitespace’ button.
M-d, aka alt+d
Generally in emacs ctrl+whatever operates on characters, while alt+whatever operates on words. For example, you can do ctrl+f/b to go forward/backword a character, and alt+f/b to go forward/backward a word.