Can you elaborate what you mean by readline style controls? Looked it up but that didn't help.

"GNU readline" is the name of the library that handles interactive shell. It has support for emacs and vim keyboard shortcuts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Readline

On macOS, Ctrl+a (^a) goes to the beginning of the line, Ctrl-e (^e) goes to the end. On Windows you can do [Home] and [End] respectively iirc.

I think "readline-style controls" refers to a more letter-based approach, instead of special keys? i.e. ^a, ^e, ^w...

Ah I see. I didn't know that. Usually I use option arrow keys or command arrow keys for that. Hopefully this supports those.