rluserman: Readline Movement Commands
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1 1.2.2 Readline Movement Commands
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1 The above table describes the most basic keystrokes that you need in
1 order to do editing of the input line. For your convenience, many other
1 commands have been added in addition to 'C-b', 'C-f', 'C-d', and <DEL>.
1 Here are some commands for moving more rapidly about the line.
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1 'C-a'
1 Move to the start of the line.
1 'C-e'
1 Move to the end of the line.
1 'M-f'
1 Move forward a word, where a word is composed of letters and
1 digits.
1 'M-b'
1 Move backward a word.
1 'C-l'
1 Clear the screen, reprinting the current line at the top.
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1 Notice how 'C-f' moves forward a character, while 'M-f' moves forward
1 a word. It is a loose convention that control keystrokes operate on
1 characters while meta keystrokes operate on words.
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