inputrc

# GNU Readline init file
# James Boyden, 2011-07-08
# For info about the contents of this file, read the Bash Reference Manual.
# (Search for "Readline Initialization")

# Rebind C-f to search forward for the next occurrence of that character.
# (replacing "forward-char", which moves forward by a single character)
Control-f: character-search

# Rebind C-b to search back to the previous occurrence of that character.
# (replacing "backward-char", which moves backward by a single character)
Control-b: character-search-backward

# Bind C-y to list the command historY in reverse.
# (replacing "yank", which pastes the top of the kill ring into the buffer)
C-y: "history | tac | less\n"

# Bind C-t to Bash built-in "pushd".
# (replacing "transpose-chars").
C-t: "pushd "

# Bind C-k to "kill-word", which kills from current position to end-of-word,
# since the default binding for "kill-word" is M-d, but AwesomeWM often uses
# Alt/Meta for its keyboard bindings, so I want to avoid clashed.
# (replacing "kill-line", which kills from current position to end-of-line)
C-k: kill-word