Keyboard Help

The keystrokes described in Table 5-1 are meant to help you in your editing of the configuration. Because there are certain tasks that you want to do over and over again, Cisco IOS Software has in place certain keystroke combinations to help make the process more efficient.

Table 5-1. Keyboard Help

(carat symbol; above the 6 key) See next row for an example	Shows you where you made a mistake in entering a command
Router#confog t
^
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
Router#config t
Router(config)#
	Moves cursor to beginning of line
	Moves cursor back one word
(orleft arrow)	Moves cursor back one character
	Moves cursor to end of line
(or right arrow)	Moves cursor forward one character
	Moves cursor forward one word
	Moves you from any prompt back down to privileged mode
	Indicates that the line has been scrolled to the left
Router#terminal no editing Router#	Turns off the ability to use the previous keyboard shortcuts
Router#terminal editing Router#	Re-enables enhanced editing mode (can use above keyboard shortcuts)