没有转义字符移动光标、改变前景和背景色、设置闪屏或反向等等，我们将回到电传打字机和其它机械辅助的时代。

With no escape sequences to move cursors, change foreground and background colors, set blinking or inverse, etc., we are back to Teletypewriters and other mechanical AIDS.

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按下该组合键之后，将搜索各个不同的位置(由“complete”选项指定)，查找与光标之前的字符开头的任何单词。

When you do, it searches various locations (as specified by the "complete" option), looking for words that start with whatever sequence of characters immediately precedes the cursor.

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如果你在ESC字符后跟一个大写的A，光标将向右移动一位。

And if you followed that by a capital a the cursor would be seen to move one position to the right.

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