List of helpful hotkeys to use on a PC, in R, or in a terminal

README.md

Keyboard Shortcuts

PC

Bash

• man <command> = open the manual for any linux command (e.g. man git would give you the manual for git)
• <command> --help = condensed version of linux command manuals
• history | grep "SEARCH TERM HERE" = Finding specific phrases in terminal history using grep
• Ctrl + l = shortcut for "clear"
• Ctrl + r = reverse interative search to search backwords through your executed commands
• python3 -m venv <path to where venv will live> = create python virtual environment at that path
• . <path to virtual environment>/bin/activate = source <path to virtual environment>/bin/activate= start virtual enironment
• deactivate = end virtual environment (go back to default bash)
• mkdir <path to new directory> = make a new directory

Vim

• i Enters you into "insert mode" to modiy text
• Esc allows you to exit "insert mode"
• :q + Enter to exit vim without saving
• :wq + Enter to exit vim with saving ("writing")

Chrome

• Ctrl + Shift + t = Re-open closed tab (Note: this does not work in incognito obviously)
• Ctrl + PgUp = Left scroll through tabs within your Chrome window
• Ctrl + PgDn = Right scroll through tabs within your Chrome window

R

• Ctrl + Shift + m = %>%
• Ctrl + Shift + -_ = <-