On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:07:02AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > >^W is a Unix "delete previous word" keybinding. > > I remember using that on TOPS-20 in the early 80's. Did it inherit the > command line hot keys from early Unix? via emacs. Traditional unix never had 'delete word'. I suspect it may have come via teco originally but lets not mention that too many times in case it comes back to life ;) Alan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list