It might be worth learning the readline keybindings. They are supported rather ubiquitously in all terminal shells (including REPLs and SQL prompts and such). I

It might be worth learning the readline keybindings. They are supported rather ubiquitously in all terminal shells (including REPLs and SQL prompts and such). If you use MacOS they are supported across the entire OS. You can also adopt these keybindings inside vim with the tpope/vim-rsi plugin. This approach has been quite effective in my experience. http://readline.kablamo.org/emacs.html http://readline.kablamo.org/emacs.html