WORD PROCESSOR WITH DISPLAY DEVICE

In a word processing machine which operates to provide text in the form of successive lines of characters, and includes an input keyboard for the input of character representations, a data memory connected for storing such representations, a display device connected to receive such representations from the memory and presenting a horizontally-extending plurality of character display locations the right-hand one of which is an entry location, and a control unit connected for controlling the display provided by the display device in a manner to cause the display device to display at least a portion of a line of characters, with each character appearing, in the order of its input to the keyboard, at an entry location of the display and then shifting to the left in the display upon delivery of each subsequent character to the display, the display device is arranged to present at least one further character display location to the right of the entry location, and the control unit is made operable for causing at least a portion of a line of previously inputted characters to be displayed at adjacent ones of the character display locations, including the further location.