Firefox crippling (was: What next?)

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Alan Cox <alan at 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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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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