Once upon a time, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > 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 ;) Are you sure ^W comes via emacs? Word erase is a TTY setting (look at "stty -a"). ^U is line erase, ^R is redraw, and so on; these all work in "true" Bourne shell on Unix systems. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
