Help page: Ctrl+U inconsistency
Help -> Keyboard shortcuts -> Bash shortcuts
contains the following two lines:
Erase a line Ctrl+U
Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line Ctrl+u
and also the following two:
Erase a word Ctrl+W
Delete from the cursor to the start of the word Ctrl+W
The first two, and the last two are effectively the same; once with a quickly readable name and once with a more technically correct description. I think we'd better keep only one of each.
Also, the use of lowercase u
is inconsistent with the rest of the shortcuts; whichever description is kept should go with Ctrl+U
with uppercase U
.
(Subject to string freeze, so master only.)
While at it, I'd personally remove the entire Bash shortcuts
help section. gnome-terminal
probably shouldn't aim to replicate parts of bash
's documentation. Also, these shortcuts aren't needed at all for beginner users, simple line editing can always be preformed using the well-known Arrow and Backspace/Delete keys. Advanced users won't learn the advanced bash
shortcuts from g-t
's help. Slightly relevant: #7979 (closed). But maybe this is for another day...