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Weird thing happened today... I was working in MySQL and accidentally hit Escape followed by the character u and it jumped me to the next word (it really uppercases the word but in my case the word was already uppercased so I didn't notice the effect). So I started playing with other escape sequences to see what they do and here's what I found...

Escape-f: Jumps forward one word.
Escape-b: Jumps back one word.
Escape-c: Capitalizes the word under the cursor.
Escape-u: Uppercases the word under the cursor.
Escape-l: Lowercases the word under the cursor.
Escape-d: Deletes the word under the cursor.
Escape-t: Transposes the word before the cursor with the one after the cursor.

Also, Escape-p puts MySQL into some other command input mode or something. I haven't figured that one out yet and I can't find any documentation on any of this at all. If anyone has more of a clue to these shortcuts let me know.