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## Keyboard shortcuts

| Keystroke | Action |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Ctrl-A, Home | Move cursor to the beginning of line |
| Ctrl-B, Left | Move cursor one character left |
| Ctrl-C | Interrupt and cancel the current edit |
| Ctrl-D | If line _is_ empty, signal end of line |
| Ctrl-D, Del | If line is _not_ empty, delete character under cursor |
| 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-J, Ctrl-M, Enter | Finish the line entry |
| 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-R | Reverse Search history (Ctrl-S forward, Ctrl-G cancel) |
| Ctrl-T | Transpose previous character with current character |
| Ctrl-U | Delete from start of line to cursor |
| Ctrl-V | Insert any special character without performing its associated action |
| Ctrl-W | Delete word leading up to cursor (using white space as a word boundary) |
| Ctrl-X Ctrl-U | Undo |
| Ctrl-Y | Paste from Yank buffer |
| Ctrl-Y | Paste from Yank buffer (Meta-Y to paste next yank instead) |
| Ctrl-Z | Suspend (Unix only) |
| Ctrl-_ | Undo |
| Meta-0, 1, ..., - | Specify the digit to the argument. `–` starts a negative argument. |
| Meta < | Move to first entry in history |
| Meta > | Move to last entry in history |
| Meta-B, Alt-Left | Move cursor to previous word |
| Meta-Backspace | Kill from the start of the current word, or, if between words, to the start of the 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 |
| Ctrl-S | Insert a new line |
| Keystroke | Action |
| --------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Ctrl-A, Home | Move cursor to the beginning of line |
| Ctrl-B, Left | Move cursor one character left |
| Ctrl-C | Interrupt and cancel the current edit |
| Ctrl-D | If line _is_ empty, signal end of line |
| Ctrl-D, Del | If line is _not_ empty, delete character under cursor |
| 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-J, Ctrl-M, Enter | Finish the line entry |
| 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-R | Reverse Search history (Ctrl-S forward, Ctrl-G cancel) |
| Ctrl-T | Transpose previous character with current character |
| Ctrl-U | Delete from start of line to cursor |
| Ctrl-V, Ctrl-Q | Insert the subsequent character verbatim instead of performing any Action associated with it. For example, to insert a newline while editing a multi-line history entry, press Ctrl-V then Ctrl-J (Ctrl-J is the ASCII Control Character `Line Feed`) |
| Ctrl-W | Delete word leading up to cursor (using white space as a word boundary) |
| Ctrl-X Ctrl-U | Undo |
| Ctrl-Y | Paste from Yank buffer |
| Ctrl-Y | Paste from Yank buffer (Meta-Y to paste next yank instead) |
| Ctrl-Z | Suspend (Unix only) |
| Ctrl-_ | Undo |
| Meta-0, 1, ..., - | Specify the digit to the argument. `–` starts a negative argument. |
| Meta < | Move to first entry in history |
| Meta > | Move to last entry in history |
| Meta-B, Alt-Left | Move cursor to previous word |
| Meta-Backspace | Kill from the start of the current word, or, if between words, to the start of the 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 |
| Ctrl-S | Insert a new line |

## `DENO_REPL_HISTORY`

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