Note that the Meta key shown below is typically the Alt key on most modern terminal emulators.
Commands
Meta + v
Move backward one screenful
Ctrl + l
Clear screen and redisplay everything (re-centers the screen)
Ctrl + p
Move to the previous line
Ctrl + n
Move to the next line
Ctrl + b
Move backward one character
Ctrl + f
Move forward one character
Ctrl + d
Delete one character
Ctrl + k
Kill from the cursor position to end of line
Ctrl + y
To yank the lastly killed text back
Ctrl + a
Move to the begining of the line
Ctrl + e
Move to the end of the line
Meta + k
Kill to the end of the current sentence
Meta + f
Move forward one word
Meta + b
Move backward one word
Meta + a
Move to the begining of the sentence
Meta + e
Move to the end of the sentence
Meta + <
Move to the begining of the file
Meta + >
Move to the end of the file
Meta + d
Kill the next word after the cursor
Ctrl + x , u
Undoes one command’s worth of changes
Ctrl + x , Ctrl + s
Save the file
Ctrl + x , Ctrl + w
Write to the file
Ctrl + x , Ctrl + f
Retrieve/open a file
Ctrl + u , n , Ctrl + f
Move forward ‘n’ characters (n should be a number)
Ctrl + x , Ctrl + c
Save file and exit