Shell shortcuts (fish)¶

Interactive-shell bindings: custom bind lines from this repo, plus the bindings injected by atuin and fish itself.

Custom bindings¶

Generated from the bind lines in fish/ by tools/gen-docs.py — run just docs-update to refresh.

Keys	Action	Defined in
`Alt+y`	Open the yazi file manager	`fish/aliases.d/files.fish`
`Ctrl+t`	Insert file path(s) (fzf)	`fish/aliases.d/fzf-pickers.fish`
`Ctrl+Alt+d`	Insert a directory path (fzf)	`fish/aliases.d/fzf-pickers.fish`
`Ctrl+Alt+g`	Insert pacman package(s) (fzf)	`fish/aliases.d/fzf-pickers.fish`
`Ctrl+Alt+l`	Insert a commit SHA (fzf)	`fish/aliases.d/fzf-pickers.fish`
`Ctrl+Alt+s`	Insert changed file path(s) (fzf)	`fish/aliases.d/fzf-pickers.fish`
`Ctrl+Alt+p`	Insert a PID (fzf)	`fish/aliases.d/fzf-pickers.fish`
`Ctrl+v`	Insert a shell variable name (fzf)	`fish/aliases.d/fzf-pickers.fish`
`Ctrl+h`	Delete the word left of the cursor	`fish/aliases.d/keybinds.fish`
`Ctrl+e`	Neovim config picker (default / nvim-lazy / nvim-full)	`fish/conf.d/nvim-switcher.fish`

thefuck — fix the last command¶

Bound inside fish_user_key_bindings (fish/conf.d/thefuck.fish), so they only appear in interactive shells.

Keys	Action
`Esc Esc` or `Ctrl+f`	Correct the previous command (thefuck)
`fuck` (typed)	Same, as a function

History — atuin¶

atuin init fish --disable-up-arrow (in config.fish), so the up arrow keeps plain fish history.

Keys	Action
`Ctrl+r`	Fuzzy-search shell history (atuin)
`?`	Ask atuin AI (on an empty prompt)

fish built-ins worth remembering¶

Keys	Action
`Alt+e` `Alt+v`	Edit the command line in `$EDITOR`
`Alt+s`	Prepend `sudo` (or `doas`) to the current (or last) command
`Alt+b`	Previous directory (`prevd`) on an empty line, else back one word
`Alt+↑` `Alt+↓`	Search history for the token under the cursor
`Alt+l`	List the directory of the token under the cursor
`Alt+p`	Append `&\| less` (paginate output)
`Alt+h` `F1`	Man page for the command under the cursor
`Alt+w`	One-line description of the command under the cursor
`Ctrl+w`	Delete one path component to the left
`Ctrl+z`	Undo last edit

Inside herdr: Alt+h/j/k/l are intercepted by vim-herdr-navigation for pane/split movement, so fish's Alt+h (man page) and Alt+l (list dir) only fire in a bare terminal — use F1 for the man page inside herdr. (Alt+y is rebound to the yazi launcher — see Custom bindings above — which shadows fish's yank-pop.)

Handy abbreviations & functions¶

The abbreviation-tips plugin reminds you of these when you type the long form.

Type	Expands to / does
`mux` / `mux1`	open or re-attach tmux session `mux0` / `mux1`
`nvims`	fzf picker for neovim configs (default / nvim-lazy / nvim-full)
`nv` / `lvi`	neovim with the light / lazy config
`z` / `zi`	zoxide: jump to dir / interactive picker
`b`	back to the previous directory and list it
`mcd`	`mkdir -p` + `cd` into it
`cpv`	copy with progress bar (`rsync`)