The following sections provide a complete description of the functions of the command-line editor with short examples depicting how each editing key works.
Throughout the examples the underline character, "_",
will be used to represent the current cursor
position. In addition, "OA" is used to represent the
Open Apple key and the term word is used to indicate a
string of characters consisting of only letters, digits, and
underscores. To the right of a editing key entry is the
bindkey function name which is used to remap
editing functions to new keys. This information is included for
reference purposes only. See Chapter 4 for
more information on the bindkey command.
It should be pointed out that at this stage that the user should not be concerned with what the actual commands used in the examples do, rather the user should concentrate on how the command-line editor functions work.