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- COMMAND_EDIT:
-
- Following is a description of the command line editing
- key-bindings. Rlab can be configured to use the Getline (not
- related to the Rlab getline function) editing interface, or
- the GNU Readline editing interface. Both provide Emacs-style
- command recall and editing.
-
- The "getline" interface is the "preferred" interface due to
- it's much smaller size, and lack of dependence on Termcap,
- which makes it more portable. Following is an excerpt from the
- Getline man-page, which describes the command editing
- key-bindings.
-
-
- User Interface
-
- To edit, the user moves the cursor to the point needing
- correction and then inserts or deletes characters or words
- as needed. All the editing commands are control characters,
- which typed by holding the CTRL key down while typing
- another character. Control characters are indicated below
- as the caret (^) followed by another character, such as ^A.
-
- All edit commands operate from any place on the line, not
- just at the beginning.
-
-
- These are the getline key bindings.
-
- ^A Move cursor to beginning of line.
- ^B Move cursor left (back) 1 column.
- ESC-B Move cursor back one word.
- ^D Delete the character under the cursor.
- ^E Move cursor to end of line.
- ^F Move cursor right (forward) 1 column.
- ESC-F Move cursor forward one word.
- ^H Delete the character left of the cursor.@
- ^I Jump to next tab stop (may be redefined by the
- program).
- ^J Return the current line.
- ^K Kill from cursor to the end of the line (see
- ^Y).
- ^L Redisplay current line.
- ^M Return the current line.
- ^N Fetches next line from the history list.
- ^O Toggle overwrite/insert mode, initially in
- insert mode.
- ^P Fetches previous line from the history list.
- ^R Begi