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From: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS line editing
Message-ID: <725@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 23:23:05 EST
Article-I.D.: bucsb.725
Posted: Thu Feb  5 23:23:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Feb-87 17:11:18 EST
References: <307@cognos.UUCP> <267@skatter.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost)
Organization: ODO (Organization for the Disorganization of Organization)
Lines: 28
Keywords: DOS, Line editing

In article <267@skatter.UUCP> kuo@skatter.UUCP (Dr. Peter Kuo) writes:
>In article <307@cognos.UUCP>, brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell) writes:
>> 
>>      I've got a question concerning some of the line editing provided by
>> MS-DOS/PC-DOS. 
>> 
>> [some text deleted]
>>
>>      Thanks.
>
>I have ctrl-u on my DOS 3.1 but not on the DOS 2.1 I was using before!

DOS 3.1 and 3.2 have ^U and ^W as they work in UNIX.  As dos progresses,
it seems to get more and more unix-like.  Nice to be able to switch systems
and have at least a couple of things stay the same!

If you really want good line editing, I recommend CED, which is public
domain (or maybe shareware -- I haven't had it installed on my system,
so I forget).  The only thing annoying about CED is that is does NOT
support ^U/^W deletes.  But since it DOS support the cursor keys, that's
fine.  Along with it's other features, it's a great program.

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