Once upon a time, Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> 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.
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