Advanced Command-Line Editing

: Today I passed my 117-201 exam and now I play a little bit with the Vi
: key bindings on Zsh. In Bash you can set them with set -o vi, and in Zsh you
: can set them additionally with setopt vi.
:
: I want to get to the point of command line editing above the basic
: tab complete and history browsing, searching and minor corrections. So I
: start witch a little example:
:
: I want to rename a file with the following naming scheme:
:
: someID_filename.txt to filename.txt
:
: After my fulminant efficient Vim key combination for table editing, (see this article)
: I challenge everybody to find the shortest key combination to fulfill this
: task.
:
: I start with an self-deprating solution:
:
: First I type:
: mv someID_filname.txt
:
: Now the count begins:
:
: <Space><Esc>T_y$$p<Enter>
:
: This makes a total of 9 characters which i have to store in my brain. As I want
: to have my head free for more complicated tasks, of course this has to
: be optimized dramatically :)
:
: Have fun.

~ by princ3 on September 11, 2007.