Table of Contents
Basic editing functions
Move cursor
<left> | character left |
<right> | character right |
<home> | to the beginning of the line |
<end> | to the end of the line |
alt-B or shift-<left> or ctrl-<left> |
word left (back) |
alt-F or shift-<right> or ctrl-<right> |
word right (forward) |
<esc> <up> or ctrl-<up> |
line up |
<esc> <down> or ctrl-<down> |
line down |
Some key combinations from the list above may be unsupported or not available on some systems.
Delete
<del> | delete the character under the cursor |
alt-D | delete the word at the cursor |
<backspace> or ctrl-H | delete the character to the left |
ctrl-K | delete until the end of the line |
ctrl-U | delete the entire line |
Insert
All regular text that you type is inserted, there is no overtype mode.
In order to insert a control character that has a function in the program
(e.g. ctrl-C = exit panel) press ctrl-V before the character:
ctrl-V <X> | insert the following character X |
In order to insert characters by their codes press alt-I and follow these
instructions.
Undo and redo
ctrl-Z or alt-ctrl-Y |
undo (reverse the last insert or delete operation) |
ctrl-Y or alt-ctrl-Z |
redo (revert to the state before undo) |
Miscellaneous
alt-T |
transform the character case: upper to lower and vice versa |
Notes:
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unprintable characters in the input line are displayed as highlighted question marks.
If you put the cursor over such character, you can see its numeric value:
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filenames containing unprintable characters can be renamed using the
internal rename function alt-R.