[Jtsummers]

This is if you have emacs-based keybindings (which is the default). M-f/M-b (Meta, often the alt key or option key) will move forward/backward a full word. C-f/C-b moves forward/backward a character. C-w kills the previous word (if you're in the middle of a word it leaves everything from the cursor to the end intact).

C-r will search backward in your history allowing you to type partial matches (like, "I know I compiled foo.c, but what options did I use?" type `C-r foo.c` and repeatedly type C-r until I find the compiler command I used).

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bindable-... - for a lot more options

You can switch to vi keybindings with `set -o vi`.

[tetris11]

Aren't all terminal bindings emacs-based, since they inherit from libreadline?

[O_H_E]

By default, yes. (Well, its not the terminal but the shell that takes input) but readline has support for vi bindings configuration

[sph]

zsh doesn't use readline