Motion Edit Commands

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	Korn Shell: Unix and Linux Programming Manual, Third Edition, The By Anatole Olczak
	Table of Contents
	Appendix E.  Korn Shell Man Page

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These commands will move the cursor.

[count]l	Cursor forward (right) one character.
[count]w	Cursor forward one alpha-numeric word.
[count]W	Cursor to the beginning of the next word that follows a blank.
[count]e	Cursor to end of word.
[count]E	Cursor to end of the current blank delimited word.
[count]h	Cursor backward (left) one character.
[count]b	Cursor backward one word.
[count]B	Cursor to preceding blank separated word.
[count]l	Cursor to column 1 count.
[count]f c	Find the next character c in the current line.
[count]F c	Find the previous character c in the current line.
[count]t c	Equivalent to f followed by h.
[count]T c	Equivalent to F followed by l.
[count];	Repeats count times, the last single character find command, f, F, t, or T.
[count],	Reverses the last single character find command count times.
0	Cursor to start of line.
^	Cursor to first non-blank character in line.
$	Cursor to end of line.

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