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Appendix A
Cisco Keyboard Commands

Table A-1 Keyboard commands executed for Cisco routers

Keystroke	Effect
Arrow keys	Useful only with an ANSO/VT100 emulating terminal. Left and right arrows move the cursor left or right one character within the current line. Up and down arrows display the previous or next lines from the command history buffer.
Backspace	Delete character before cursor
Del	Delete character before cursor
Tab	Command completion
?	Help
Ctrl A	Move cursor to beginning of line
Ctrl B	Back cursor up one character
Ctrl D	Delete the character cursor is on
Ctrl E	Move cursor to end of line
Ctrl H	Delete character before cursor
Ctrl I	Command completion
Ctrl K	Delete characters to end of line (see also Ctrl Y)
Ctrl L	Redisplay line
Ctrl N	Bring up next line from the command history buffer
Ctrl P	Bring up previous line from the command history buffer
Ctrl R	Retype line (useful when debug output trashes the screen)
Ctrl T	Transpose characters
Ctrl U	Delete characters to beginning of line (characters go to cut buffer)
Ctrl V	Quoted insert (take the character literally instead of as editor command; used to insert control character)
Ctrl W	Delete previous word
Ctrl X	Delete characters to beginning of line (characters go to cut buffer)
Ctrl Y	Yank: restore cut characters from buffer after cursor
Esc	Show last line from command history buffer
Esc O	Escape prefix sent by BT100 terminal prior to code for arrow key
Esc Q	Quoted insert (take the next character literally instead of as editor command; used to insert control character)
Esc [	Escape prefix sent by BT100 terminal prior to code for arrow key
Esc b	Move cursor back one word
Esc c	Capitalize word after cursor
Esc d	Delete word (from cursor forward)
Esc f	Move cursor forward one word
Esc I	Tab
Esc l	Change word after cursor to lowercase
Esc q	Quoted insert (take the next character literally instead of as editor command; used to insert control character)
Esc u	Change word after cursor to uppercase
Esc y	Switch to previous cut buffer and (yank) it at cursor
Esc Del	Delete word before cursor

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