Beginning Linux user: “Ctrl-Z is undo, right?”

Advanced Linux user: “Ctrl-Z dammit fg”

    • tal@lemmy.today
      16·
      2 years ago

      Control-Q

      Or you can disable software flow control in cooked mode with stty -ixon and then Control-S won’t suspend flow.

      EDIT: If you use screen or tmux, I suppose that you probably don’t need software flow control anyway from a UI standpoint, because both will suspend flow if you enter their copy mode, which acts similarly.

      • vector_zero@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        Bonus when you disable software flow control: In addition to Ctrl+r to reverse search through commands, you can search forward via Ctrl+s