| Ctrl+P or Up arrow | Previous command. |
| Ctrl+N or Down arrow | Next command. |
| show history | Shows last 10 commands entered by default. |
| show terminal | Shows terminal configurations and history buffer size. |
| terminal history size | Changes buffer size (the maximum is 256). |
| Ctrl+A | Move cursor to the beginning of the line. |
| Ctrl+E | Move cursor to the end of the line. |
| Esc+B | Move back one word. |
| Ctrl+B | Move back cursor. |
| Ctrl+F | Move forward cursor. |
| Esc+F | Move forward one word. |
| Ctrl+D (or Backspace) | Deletes a single character. |
| Esc+D | Delete from Cursor to end of word. |
| Ctrl+R | Redisplays a line. |
| Ctrl+U | Erases a line. |
| Ctrl+W | Erases a word. |
| Ctrl+Z | Ends configuration mode and returns to EXEC mode. |
| Ctrl+C | Exit Config mode. |
| Tab | Finishes typing a command. |
| Router#? | Shows all available commands in current mode. |
| Router#t? | Shows all available commands beginning with the letter t. |
| Router#telnet ? | Shows all available options for the telnet command. |