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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/tty.xml b/erts/doc/src/tty.xml
index e82e2cc807..7670b293cd 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/tty.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/tty.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2020</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2023</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ erl</pre>
<item><c>C-a</c> means pressing the <em>Ctrl</em> key and the letter
<c>a</c> simultaneously.</item>
<item><c>M-f</c> means pressing the <em>Esc</em> key and the letter
- <c>f</c> in sequence.</item>
+ <c>f</c> in sequence or pressing the <em>Alt</em> key and the letter
+ <c>f</c> simultaneously.</item>
<item><c>Home</c> and <c>End</c> represent the keys with the same
name on the keyboard.</item>
<item><c>Left</c> and <c>Right</c> represent the corresponding arrow
@@ -141,6 +142,10 @@ erl</pre>
</row>
<row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">C-l</cell>
+ <cell align="left" valign="middle">Clears the screen</cell>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <cell align="left" valign="middle">M-l</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">Redraw line</cell>
</row>
<row>
@@ -149,11 +154,22 @@ erl</pre>
buffer</cell>
</row>
<row>
+ <cell align="left" valign="middle">C-o</cell>
+ <cell align="left" valign="middle">Edit the current line using the editor specified in
+ the environment variable <c>VISUAL</c> or <c>EDITOR</c>. The environment variables can
+ contain arguments to the editor if needed, for example <c>VISUAL="emacs -nw"</c>.
+ On Windows the editor cannot be a console based editor.</cell>
+ </row>
+ <row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">C-p</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">Fetch previous line from the history
buffer</cell>
</row>
<row>
+ <cell align="left" valign="middle">C-r</cell>
+ <cell align="left" valign="middle">Search the shell history</cell>
+ </row>
+ <row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">C-t</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">Transpose characters</cell>
</row>