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Setting the Command Line Editor
In the Korn shell, use one of the following commands to set the option to be used for command line editing: `set -o emacs set -o gmacs set -o vi` The keys for specific commands will depend on which editor option is specified. back to top

Setting the Command Line Editor

In the Korn shell, use one of the following commands to set the option to be used for command line editing:


                  set -o emacs
                  

                  set -o gmacs
                  

                  set -o vi

The keys for specific commands will depend on which editor option is specified.

Command Line Editor Keys

Begin command line editing by entering the key sequence to recall a previous command from history. In vi mode, the initial command must be preceded by Esc, so command line editing is initiated with Esc k or Esc -. In emacs or gmacs mode, enter Ctrl-P to recall the previous command or Esc < to recall the first command from the history.

	emacs / gmacs	vi
Automatic file name completion	Esc Esc	Esc \
Begin command line editing	Ctrl-P Esc <	Esc k Esc -
Previous line/command	Ctrl-P	k -
Next line/command	Ctrl-N	j +
First line/command in history	Esc <
Last line/command in history	Esc >
Search backward in history		/string
Search forward in history		?string
Repeat search in same direction		n
Repeat search in reverse direction		N
Execute and advance to next command in history	Ctrl-O
Clear entire line	Ctrl-U
Backwards one character	Ctrl-B	h Backspace
Forward one character	Ctrl-F	l
Backwards to first character of word	Esc b	b
Forward to first character of word		w
Forward to last character of word		e
Forward to end of word	Esc f
Beginning of line	Ctrl-A	0 (zero)
First non-blank character in line		^
End of line	Ctrl-E	$
Column n		n\| ("or" bar)
Find next character in line		fchar
Repeat find in same direction		;
Repeat find in reverse direction		,
Delete character at cursor	Ctrl-D	x
Delete character before cursor	Backspace	X
Delete n characters		nx
Delete n characters before cursor		nX
Delete word before cursor	Esc Backspace	Ctrl-W
Delete from cursor to end of line	Ctrl-K	D
Delete to end of word	Esc d
Replace current character		r
Replace multiple character		R
Insert before current character		i
Insert after current character		a
Insert at beginning of line		I
Insert at end of line		A
Repeat most recent command		.
Undo last change		u
Undo all changes		U
Cancel emacs command (cancels Esc)	Ctrl-G
Cancel UNIX command; new prompt	Ctrl-C
Display version temporarily	Ctrl-V
Transpose two characters emacs: transpose current character with following character gmacs: transpose previous two characters	Ctrl-T

Last updated Tuesday July 15, 2008

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