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doc: add doc for tty writes ( readline.js / REPL ) #20814
Description
The readline interface is missing the keybindings docs for possible input to tty. Attaching a list of possible bindings to be added to the doc.
| KeyBindings | Description |
|---|---|
ctrl+shift+backspace |
delete line left |
ctrl+shift+delete |
delete line right |
ctrl+c |
emits SIGINT |
ctrl+h |
delete left |
ctrl+d |
delete right or EOF |
ctrl+u |
delete from current to line start |
ctrl+k |
delete from current to end of line |
ctrl+a |
goto start of line |
ctrl+e |
goto to end of line |
ctrl+b |
back one character |
ctrl+f |
forward one character |
ctrl+l |
clear screen |
ctrl+n |
next history item |
ctrl+p |
prev history item |
ctrl+z |
(need clarification) |
ctrl+w or ctrl+backspace |
delete backwards to a word boundary |
ctrl+delete |
delete forward to a word boundary |
ctrl+left |
word left |
ctrl+right |
word right |
meta+b |
word left |
meta+f |
word right |
meta+d or meta+delete |
delete word right |
meta+backspace |
delete word left |
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[-]doc: add doc for tty writes ( readline.js )[/-][+]doc: add doc for tty writes ( readline.js / REPL )[/+]shobhitchittora commentedon May 18, 2018
@BridgeAR can you suggest the correct place to add these bindings. Are these to be added to REPL doc or readline doc. Also for now I just took the
Descriptionfrom the comments in the code, probably a better description is in order. Can you add the concerned group to help with this?Thanks. 😇
doc: adds handeled tty write keybindings
doc: add the keybindings to readline doc. Also -
doc: fixes as per review comments
doc: highlighting code + capital case description
doc: fixes typo
doc: adds description for ctrl+z
doc: fixes line warnings + removes nbsp;
HarshithaKP commentedon Jan 3, 2020
I would like to work on this.
doc: document readline keybindings
doc: document readline key bindings
doc: document readline key bindings
doc: document readline key bindings