These all work in the Gnome Terminal. Handy if you can remember them.

Ctrl + a - Jump to the start of the line
Ctrl + d - Delete from under the cursor
Ctrl + e - Jump to the end of the line
Ctrl + k - Delete to EOL
Ctrl + l - Clear the screen
Ctrl + r - Search the history backwards
Ctrl + t - Swap last two characters
Ctrl + w - Delete last word
Ctrl + u - Delete backward from cursor
Ctrl + y - yank or paste

Alt + c - Capitalize the word
Alt + d - Delete word
Alt + l - Make word lowercase

Here “2T” means Press TAB twice
(string)2T - All available commands starting with (string)
2T - Only Sub Dirs inside including Hidden one
$2T - All Sys variables
! - Repeat command from history where # is line number
!$ = last argument of last command

Let me know if you have any to add to this list.

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