Which shortcut in Zsh does the same as Ctrl-U in Bash?

Question

In Bash, when I am typing a command, I press Ctrl+U, all characters from the beginning of the line to the cursor are going to be removed. However, in zsh, if I pressed Ctrl+U, the whole line is gone.

How to do the same in Zsh as in Bash?

Answer 1

It sounds like you'd like for Ctrl+U to be bound to backward-kill-line rather than kill-whole-line, so add this to your .zshrc:

bindkey \^U backward-kill-line 

The bindkey builtin and the available editing commands (“widgets”) are documented in the zshzle man page.