Editing Characters

These are the commands which operate on characters. Note that when an argument (see section Command Arguments) is given to one of these commands it actually operates on number of characters. For example, if you want to delete the next 5 characters starting at the cursor type Meta-5 Ctrl-d.

Ctrl-f

Move forward one character.

Ctrl-b

Move back one character.

Right

Move one character to the right, when the end of the line is encountered it's ignored and the cursor keeps moving to the right.

Left

Move one character to the left, stops when the beginning of the line is reached.

Ctrl-d

DEL

Deletes the character beneath the cursor.

Backspace

Deletes the character before the cursor.

Ctrl-t

Transposes the character before the cursor with the one under the cursor. When given an argument the character before the cursor is dragged forward over that many characters.

Meta-SPC

Delete all white space characters surrounding the cursor leaving a single space in their place. If a prefix argument is given that many spaces are left.

Meta-\

Delete all white space characters surrounding the cursor. This is equivalent to the key sequence Meta-0 Meta-SPC.

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