Other Useful Things

Save on typing

Up Arrow or Ctrl+p

Scrolls through the commands you've entered previously.

Down Arrow or Ctrl+n

Takes you back to a more recent command.

Enter

When you have the command you want.

Tab

A very useful feature. It autocompletes any commands or filenames, if there's only one option, or else gives you a list of options.

Changing text

You cannot use the mouse to navigate through text when working in a terminal. Instead, you can use the Left/Right arrow keys to move around a line.

When the cursor is where you want it in the line, typing inserts text, it doesn't overtype what's already there.

Ctrl+a or Home

Moves the cursor to the start of a line.

Ctrl+e or End

Moves the cursor to the end of a line.

Ctrl+k

Deletes from the current cursor position to the end of the line.

Ctrl+u

Deletes the whole of the current line.

Ctrl+w

Deletes the word before the cursor.