ELVISH-READLINE-BINDING(7)

🎀 elvish-r...e-binding(7) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Miscellaneous Information Manual section of the Elvish docs — this one's short and sweet, but it's a lifesaver if your fingers are hardwired to readline muscle memory 💅

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✨ Introduction ✨

so the readline-binding module is literally just a bundle of readline-like key bindings — think classic readline vibes but make it Elvish 🦋

like, the whole point: you get stuff such as binding Ctrl-A to move the cursor to the start of the line. iconic, honestly.

to use it, drop this little line into ~/.elvish/rc.elv:

use readline-binding

⚠️ heads up bestie: this will override some of the standard bindings. for example, Ctrl-L gets bound to a function that clears the terminal screen, instead of starting location mode. so yeah, you're trading one vibe for another — know that going in 🙈

and if you wanna see exactly what's going on under the hood, the source code is right here, no cap:

https://github.com/elves/elvish/blob/master/pkg/mods/bundled/readline-binding.elv.go

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okay that's the whole page, you ate it 💖 this was the elvish-r...e-binding(7) page from Elvish 0.17.0, dated Nov 18, 2024 — go forth and bind those keys, main character 🫶✨