Maybe there is a tool that does that? Maybe I’m doing this all wrong and there is a different way I should browse?

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    2 days ago

    Well…Control-C is treated by bash differently than in emacs. It basically cancels the existing line and gives you a fresh line.

    And IIRC, Control-V is also different, used to input literal control characters. Like, the terminal will handle that if it’s in cooked mode.

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    $ od -x
    

    hits Control-V Control-C Enter Control-D

    ^C
    
    0000000 0a03
    0000002
    $
    

    Yeah.

    Control-U is also a notable difference I know off-the-cuff. In emacs, it’s the universal-argument prefix, which is an important way to pass arguments to functions. In readline, it’s kill-to-beginning-of-line.