https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bindable-... is a must read.

Thanks, I discovered C-o thanks to you (even though I have gone through the bash manual several times).

No, more having to press C-r multiple times just to get sequential group of commands from history.

Yes I was also impressed when I found out about this one. However I use it far less frequently than ALT-. . ALT-# is also useful in the frequent cases where I am constructing a complicated commmand but I have to run another command before the current one.

Also keep in mind that most interactive command-line tools are built upon readline and can understand all those bindings (think python REPL, mysql/psql...)

>However I use it far less frequently than ALT-.

Haha of course. I use it so frequently I can't imagine how anyone uses their shell without it.

>can understand all those bindings

I knew that but just being reminded helped me realize that C-o is probably going to be useful in the REPL as well. Thanks.

or man bash /Readline Command Names<Enter>