fish.md

Shared Bindings

Key	Action
Tab	Completes the current token.
Shift+Tab	Completes the current token and starts the pager’s search mode.
Left / Right	Move the cursor left or right by one character. Accepts the autosuggestion if available.
Enter	Executes the current command line or inserts a newline if it’s not complete.
Alt+Enter	Inserts a newline at the cursor position.
Alt+Left / Alt+Right	Move the cursor one word left or right, or moves in the directory history. Accepts the first word of the autosuggestion if available.
Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right	Move the cursor one word left or right, accepting one word of the autosuggestion.
Shift+Left / Shift+Right	Move the cursor one word left or right, without stopping on punctuation. Accepts one big word of the autosuggestion.
Up / Down	Search the command history for the previous/next command.
Alt+Up / Alt+Down	Search the command history for the previous/next token.
Ctrl+C	Interrupt/kill whatever is running (SIGINT).
Ctrl+D	Delete one character right of the cursor or exit fish if command line is empty.
Ctrl+U	Removes contents from the beginning of line to the cursor.
Ctrl+L	Clears and repaints the screen.
Ctrl+W	Removes the previous path component.
Ctrl+X	Copies the current buffer to the system’s clipboard.
Ctrl+V	Inserts the clipboard contents.
Alt+D	Moves the next word to the Copy and paste (Kill Ring).
Alt+H / F1	Shows the manual page for the current command.
Alt+L	Lists the contents of the current or specified directory.
Alt+O	Opens the file at the cursor in a pager.
Alt+P	Adds `&
Alt+W	Prints a short description of the command under the cursor.
Alt+E / Alt+V	Edit the current command line in an external editor.
Alt+S	Prepends sudo to the current command line.
Ctrl+Space	Inserts a space without expanding an abbreviation.

Emacs Mode Commands

Key	Action
Home / Ctrl+A	Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line.
End / Ctrl+E	Moves to the end of line. Accepts autosuggestion if available.
Ctrl+B / Ctrl+F	Move the cursor one character left or right.
Ctrl+N / Ctrl+P	Move the cursor up/down or through history.
Delete / Backspace	Removes one character forwards or backwards.
Alt+Backspace	Removes one word backwards.
Alt+< / Alt+>	Moves to the beginning/end of the command line.
Ctrl+K	Deletes from the cursor to the end of line.
Escape / Ctrl+G	Cancels the current operation. Undoes unambiguous completion.
Alt+C	Capitalizes the current word.
Alt+U	Makes the current word uppercase.
Ctrl+T	Transposes the last two characters.
Alt+T	Transposes the last two words.
Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+_	Undo the most recent edit of the line.
Alt+/	Reverts the most recent undo.
Ctrl+R	Opens the history in a pager.

Additional Shortcuts

Key	Action
Alt+Up / Alt+Down	Switch to the previous/next arguments.
Alt+.	Repeat last argument.