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> No way to pause a command and view the man.

^A, ^K, m, a, n, space, ^Y, enter. Upon exit, ^Y.

> No way to set a command aside.

^A, ^K. Grab it again with ^Y.

(Yes, these are all readline shortcuts. If you think they’re a bit long, bind them to something shorter in your inputrc.)



Do you actually use zsh? C-o and M-q and M-a and M-h and all the others are really nice, and as far as I know bash has nothing similar (correct me if I'm wrong). You don't NEED any of these niceties but they're very nice.


The comment you are responding to talks about Bash.


It talks about bash workarounds for zsh features.




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