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gregnavis on Oct 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Level Up Your Shell Game

I prefer to use inputrc instead of aliases. Put the following into your .inputrc

    "\C-gs": "git status -sb "

Then, for example, after pressing Ctrl-g, s "git status -sb " will appear in your prompt. Much more readable than lots of two or three letter aliases. You can see the complete list of my shortcuts on my GitHub - https://github.com/grn/dotfiles/blob/master/inputrc

barrkel on Oct 25, 2013 [–]

I don't like rebinding C-g, as that's the 'cancel' key for things like incremental search (in emacs bindings).

gregnavis on Oct 25, 2013 | [–]

Good point! Interestingly I managed to work without it somehow. I just checked that C-g C-g works as cancel when those binding are present.

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