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  2. COMMAND LINE EDITING FEATURES
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  5. Key                ANSI     Effect
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  7. Cursor-left        ^[[D     move one character to the left
  8. Cursor-right       ^[[C     move one character to the right
  9. Shift-cursor-left  ^[[ A,^A move to the beginning of the line
  10. Shift-cursor-right ^[[ @,^Z move to the end of the line
  11. Backspace          ^H       delete last character
  12. Del                127      delete the character under the cursor
  13. Return/Enter       ^M       process command line
  14.                    ^W       move cursor one tab stop to the right
  15.                    ^X       delete current line
  16.                    ^K       delete everything from the cursor forward
  17.                             to the end of the line
  18.                    ^U       delete everything from the cursor
  19.                             backward to the start of the line
  20. Cursor-up          ^[[A     move backward in the history buffer
  21.                             (earlier lines)
  22. Cursor-down        ^[[B     move forward in the history buffer
  23.                             (latter lines)
  24. Shift-cursor-up    ^[[T,^R  search backward through history buffer
  25.                             for given command line or fragment
  26. Shift-cursor-down  ^[[S     move to the bottom of the history buffer,
  27.                             with cusor on blank line
  28.                    ^F       move to last word
  29.                    ^G       move to next word
  30.                    ^V       move halfway backward toward the start of
  31.                             the line
  32.                    ^B       move halfway forward toward the end of
  33.                             the line
  34.                    ^E       delete the word under the cursor
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  36. NOTE: 1. ^x is Ctrl-x (Hold down the control "Ctrl" key and type x)
  37.       2. Some terminal programs do not support shifted cursor keys.
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