Go to the previous, next section.

Some Miscellaneous Commands

re-read-init-file (C-x C-r)
Read in the contents of your init file, and incorporate any bindings or variable assignments found there.

abort (C-g)
Abort the current editing command and ring the terminal's bell (subject to the setting of bell-style).

do-uppercase-version (M-a, M-b, ...)
Run the command that is bound to the corresoponding uppercase character.

prefix-meta (ESC)
Make the next character that you type be metafied. This is for people without a meta key. Typing `ESC f' is equivalent to typing `M-f'.

undo (C-_, C-x C-u)
Incremental undo, separately remembered for each line.

revert-line (M-r)
Undo all changes made to this line. This is like typing the undo command enough times to get back to the beginning.

tilde-expand (M-~)
Perform tilde expansion on the current word.

dump-functions ()
Print all of the functions and their key bindings to the readline output stream. If a numeric argument is supplied, the output is formatted in such a way that it can be made part of an inputrc file.

display-shell-version (C-x C-v)
Display version information about the current instance of Bash.

shell-expand-line (M-C-e)
Expand the line the way the shell does when it reads it. This performs alias and history expansion as well as all of the shell word expansions.

history-expand-line (M-^)
Perform history expansion on the current line.

insert-last-argument (M-., M-_)
A synonym for yank-last-arg.

operate-and-get-next (C-o)
Accept the current line for execution and fetch the next line relative to the current line from the history for editing. Any argument is ignored.

emacs-editing-mode (C-e)
When in vi editing mode, this causes a switch back to emacs editing mode, as if the command set -o emacs had been executed.

Go to the previous, next section.