You're right. I had misremembered thinking that the control keys often exposed in various GUI's were the same as the cmd ones. Which they are not: http://ss6

You're right. I had misremembered thinking that the control keys often exposed in various GUI's were the same as the cmd ones. Which they are not: http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-keyboard.html http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-keyboard.html Also, the original comment was on "console editors" and not on "command line editing", which is what I thought the subject was about. Looks like I struck out on the whole comment.