Cisco Systems 1300 Series Using Editing Features, Enabling and Disabling Editing Features, Ctrl-A

Chapter 6 Using the Command-Line Interface

Using Editing Features

Using Editing Features

This section describes the editing features that can help you manipulate the command line. It contains these sections:

•Enabling and Disabling Editing Features, page 6-8

•Editing Commands Through Keystrokes, page 6-8

•Editing Command Lines That Wrap, page 6-9

Enabling and Disabling Editing Features

Although enhanced editing mode is automatically enabled, you can disable it.

To re-enable the enhanced editing mode for the current terminal session, enter this command in privileged EXEC mode:

br# terminal editing

To reconfigure a specific line to have enhanced editing mode, enter this command in line configuration mode:

br(config-line)# editing

To globally disable enhanced editing mode, enter this command in line configuration mode:

br(config-line)# no editing

Editing Commands Through Keystrokes

Table 6-5shows the keystrokes that you need to edit command lines.

Table 6-5		Editing Commands Through Keystrokes
	Capability		Keystroke	Purpose
	Move around the command line to		Ctrl-Bor the left arrow	Move the cursor back one character.
	make changes or corrections.		key1
			Ctrl-For the right arrow	Move the cursor forward one character.
			key1
			Ctrl-A	Move the cursor to the beginning of the command line.
			Ctrl-E	Move the cursor to the end of the command line.
			Esc B	Move the cursor back one word.
			Esc F	Move the cursor forward one word.
			Ctrl-T	Transpose the character to the left of the cursor with the
				character located at the cursor.
	Recall commands from the buffer and		Ctrl-Y	Recall the most recent entry in the buffer.
	paste them in the command line. The
			Esc Y	Recall the next buffer entry.
	access point/bridge provides a buffer			The buffer contains only the last 10 items that you have
	with the last ten items that you
	deleted.			deleted or cut. If you press Esc Y more than ten times, you
				cycle to the first buffer entry.
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