Week 26
published
This week I looked into
fish key bindings
again, and I found two neat bindings I’d like to incorporate into my
workflow.
⇧↹
Not unlike other shells,
Tab completes the
current token.
Shift-Tab on the
other hand will complete the current token and
enter search mode.
⌥F
When typing a command, Fish will offer suggestions based on entries in the
history. When the suggestion matches what you wanted to type, you can accept
it with
Ctrl-F (Ctrl-E also works). It was probably the superpower that won me over when I started using
Fish. However, it took me until now to find out its complement —
Alt-F — which
accepts the first word in the suggestion.
⌥L
Alt-L lists the
contents of a directory — by default the current one, which compared to
typing ls only
saves one keystroke — unless the cursor is over a directory argument, in
which case the contents of that directory will be listed.
⌥H
Alt-H shows the
manual page for the current command while
Alt-P appends
|less to the end
of the current command.
I’m not yet sure the last three will make it into my workflow, but I found
them interesting nonetheless.