Question

The command to move the cursor to the beginning of line in MySQL input editor is?

(a) Ctrl-A

(b) Ctrl-E

(c) Ctrl-D

(d) Esc-a

This question was posed to me by my college director while I was bunking the class.

This interesting question is from Interacting with MySQL topic in portion General MySQL Use of MySQL

Answer 1

The correct option is (a) Ctrl-A

For explanation I would say: Control-A moves the cursor to the beginning of the line. Ctrl-E moves the cursor to the end of the line. Control-D deletes the character under the cursor whereas Esc-a is not valid.