^ is Ctrl
Alt is the alt/option key
Alt+F/B - Forward/Backward Word
^P - Prev command
^N - Next command
^XX - Toggle between beginning of line & current cursor positions
Alt+F/B - Forward/Backward Word
Alt+T/Esc+T - Swap current word with prev
^L - Clear screen
^H/^D - Backspace / Forward Delete Character
^W - Delete/Cut word before cursor
^K - Delete/Cut till End of Line
^U - Delete/Cut Line Before cursor
^Y - Paste last cut
Alt+U/L - UPPER/lower case word after cursor
^- - Undo
^Z - Stop the current process and send it to the background.
I don't know what these do -
Alt R -
^C -This is not true. ^X^X is actually a well known for Emacs users command "exchange-point-and-mark" and it only skips to the beginning of line because that's where the mark is by default. You can set the mark yourself with C-<space> anywhere on the line. From this point on pressing ^X^X will move your cursor to where you activated the mark, and move the mark to where your cursor was. That's pretty useful sometimes.
These two should be equivalent, I think, unless there is something strange going on:
Alt+T - Swap current word with prev
Esc+T Swap last 2 words with prev
C-c abandons current line without saving it in the kill ring and no matter where on the line you are. Faster than C-e C-u or C-a C-k.M-r (Alt R) works as if you pressed undo (C-/ or C-_) enough times to get back to the empty line.
I put a little cheatsheet for those things some time ago for my coworkers, it lives here: http://klibert.pl/readline.html
On OS X, these shortcuts work in generic text inputs as well! That's enough of a reason to convince me to keep the default shortcuts.
Seasoned iTerm user? First off, what the heck is an iTerm? Oh, it's an open source Terminal.app replacement first released in 2002. http://iterm.sourceforge.net/history.shtml
Seasoned indeed! :)
These are made very specifically for MacBooks, but I'm thinking of making a more generic option soon!
Weird squiggly thing means Alt.
That's pretty much all you need to know.