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Keybinds

These are the available keybinds which termcrypt can use while in input mode.

Emacs mode (default mode)

Keystroke Action
Ctrl-A, Home Move cursor to the beginning of line
Ctrl-B, Left Move cursor one character left
Ctrl-E, End Move cursor to end of line
Ctrl-F, Right Move cursor one character right
Ctrl-H, Backspace Delete character before cursor
Ctrl-I, Tab Next completion
Ctrl-K Delete from cursor to end of line
Ctrl-L Clear screen
Ctrl-N, Down Next match from history
Ctrl-P, Up Previous match from history
Ctrl-X Ctrl-U Undo
Ctrl-Y Paste from Yank buffer (Meta-Y to paste next yank instead)
Meta-< Move to first entry in history
Meta-> Move to last entry in history
Meta-B, Alt-Left Move cursor to previous word
Meta-C Capitalize the current word
Meta-D Delete forwards one word
Meta-F, Alt-Right Move cursor to next word
Meta-L Lower-case the next word
Meta-T Transpose words
Meta-U Upper-case the next word
Meta-Y See Ctrl-Y
Meta-Backspace Kill from the start of the current word, or, if between words, to the start of the previous word
Meta-0, 1, …, - Specify the digit to the argument. – starts a negative argument.

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