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== Miscellaneous == | == Miscellaneous == | ||
=== Moving on a line | === Moving and editing on a line === | ||
Works for emacs, and also for the terminal command line which particularly useful for the everyday life | |||
* go towards next(previous) word | * go towards next(previous) word | ||
Esc-f, Esc-b | Esc-f, Esc-b | ||
Revision as of 17:15, 23 November 2011
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Miscellaneous
Moving and editing on a line
Works for emacs, and also for the terminal command line which particularly useful for the everyday life
- go towards next(previous) word
Esc-f, Esc-b
- go to the end(beginning) of a line
Ctrl-e, Ctrl-a
- Cut text towards end of line and put it into the kill ring
Ctrl-k
- Kills next(previous) word and put it into the kill ring
Esc-d, Esc-Backspace
- Paste what is in the kill ring
Ctrl-y
Handling batch jobs
- if you want to send a job on a computer and logout without killing the job:
nohup ./job
The coma to point conversion in French environment
if you are working with a configuration of Linux which has not the dot "." as a standard format for floating points data (for instance the coma "," in French), you can add the following two lines in your .bashrc file:
LC_NUMERIC=en_US export LC_NUMERIC
this will make the job without too many side effects.