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How to use Ctrl Backspace in a terminal?
If you want Ctrl + Backspace to erase the previous sequence of alphanumeric characters, don’t set stty werase, and instead put the following line in your .inputrc: Note that this assumes that your terminal sends the Ctrl+H character for Ctrl + Backspace.
Which is the keyboard shortcut for backspace in Bash?
Alt + Backspace works for me in bash and zsh. You can also do this with Ctrl W. Another option is to set your own shortcut but this will depend on the terminal emulator you are using. For xterm and rxvt and maybe others, add this line to your ~/.inputrc (create the file if it does not exist):
How can I erase a word backward at the command line ( Bash )?
After doing this, if I hit Ctrl + P it will erase a word from the line. And if I hit Ctrl + A, it will erase the whole line. Alt + Backspace works for me in bash and zsh. You can also do this with Ctrl W. Another option is to set your own shortcut but this will depend on the terminal emulator you are using.
How to kill Ctrl + Backspace in zsh?
If that doesn’t work, try typing Ctrl + V Ctrl + Delete to see what the value is on your system. You could even add both of those together to your .zshrc, or use the output of tput kDC5 instead of hard-coding the sequence. Ctrl + Backspace seems harder. On my system, pressing that is the same as pressing just Backspace.
How to bind the backspace key In Tkinter?
For example, if your binding deletes one character and then returns, two characters will get deleted because your binding will remove one and the default binding will remove one. The way to override this behavior is to return the string “break”.
How to bind Ctrl + delete to.inputrc?
To bind it to Ctrl + Delete, you first need to figure out what escape sequence your terminal sends, then add a corresponding line in your .inputrc. Type Ctrl + V then Ctrl + Delete; this will insert something like ^ [ [3;5~ where the initial ^ [ is a visual representation of the escape character.
How to insert four spaces in a Python file?
Here is a complete working example that will insert four spaces when you press tab, and remove four spaces when you press backspace: