Ctrl + w keyboard shortcut Panos cli

[JohnSimon]

Need a keyboard shortcut for removing a word behind the cursor, similar to ctrl + W in other vendors, both ctrl + w & ctrl + u removes the whole line in Panos

[dmifsud]

Not PAN-OS specific, but Alt + backspace will delete 1 word at a time (the one before the cursor) - is that what you need?

- DM

[JohnSimon]

Yes, I need deleting 1 word at a time, Alt + Backspace is also not working in pan-os

-John S

[BPry]

@JohnSimon,

This isn't really a feature of the cli. It maps to the undo action (generally speaking) within Windows unless it has been re-mapped by the application you are using. In Windows for example using Windows Terminal and OpenSSH an Alt+Backspace will simply remove the last entered word. 

How exactly are you connecting to your firewall and in what program? It's very possible that whatever you are using to connect simply doesn't allow that shortcut to be utilized. 

[JohnSimon]

Thanks for the reply, am using secure crt 9.0.2, ctrl+w works with Junos & Ios to remove the last word, but behaves differently with Panos. I have checked with my peers who work on different terminal softwares, all of them report the same.

[BPry]

@JohnSimon,

Does Alt+Backspace not work for clearing the last word? It does in an OpenSSH window in Windows Terminal and through a WSL window as well. I've never seen Ctl+W used to clear the last word, only ever to close tabs, close programs, ect. 

[JohnSimon]

It removes only the last letter, not the last word

[DanielHolm]

alt + backspace deletes last word for me. did you try with both left and right "alt" on your keyboard?

[JohnSimon]

Yes, I tried both Alt keys, both didnt work, am using Secure crt as ssh client software.

ctrl + w removes the last word in both cisco & juniper cli. it would be nice to have that in Palo alto too.

Thanks

John Simon

[TomYoung]

Hi @JohnSimon ,

The keyboard shortcut Esc+backspace (Esc+delete on MacOS) deletes the word before the cursor.  I tried all of these shortcuts on my NGFW (PAN-OS 10.1), and they work.

Go to next in command history	Down arrow or  Ctrl+n
Go to previous in command history	Up arrow or Ctrl+p
Go to beginning of line	Ctrl+a
Go to end of line	Ctrl+e
Go left one character	Ctrl+b
Go right one character	Ctrl+f
Go forward one word	Esc+f
Go backward one word	Esc+b
Delete character over cursor	Ctrl+d
Delete word after cursor	Esc+d
Delete word before cursor	Esc+backspace
Delete text from the cursor to end of the line	Ctrl+k
Delete the line	Ctrl+u
Paste the deleted text at cursor	Ctrl+y

Thanks,

Tom

[JohnSimonNetops]

Thanks for the reply Tom, Esc + backspace works, is it possible to remap it ctrl + w, so that it matches industry standard of unix, ios, junos etc which most people are used to.