I almost never use any of the "shortcuts" explained. And I wonder if it would be worth learning them. They look much more cumbersome than the alternatives, I use in my everyday work.

I have to admit, that -- at some time in the past -- I've even tried to activate vim mode. As a heavy vim user i thought it would make sense.

At the end I'm stuck with the Emacs-inspired (is it really Emacs?) shortcuts.

They seem to be the ones that make most sense in the short living, very interactive, shell command line:

- Arrows for going up/down one or two commands,

- ctrl-r for interactive searching in the history,

- ctrl-a for going back to the beginning of the row,

- ctrl-e to the end,

- del & and backscape for deleting a bunch of chars,

- in some case ctrl-w for deleting words backwards (mostly for deleting the url in the latest wget command),

- and, of course, tab completion.

When I'm in need for more complex interactions:

- I start vim and

- work with a mix of !! commands (shell that outputs the result in the current vim buffer),

- vim manipulations (vertical selections, ctrl-x-f, qq short living macros), A and I with a . repeat),

- join everything in a row and yank it and, finally,

- a :!ctrl-r" to run it.

When the interaction is even more complex, than it's time for a shell script.

Last resort being a Python script.

Now, why would I take the time to write `rm my-file{-01,-02,old}` and risk getting a typo into it, instead of relying on the tab-autocomplete?