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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BSD new tty driver: ^W (werase)
Message-ID: <10888@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 88 16:01:22 GMT
References: <1221@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <1221@ark.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>Isn't it a good idea to let the ^W (word erase) command
>erase not only ... but also to the previous slash?
[example of long pathname with embedded error deleted]

DEC did this in Ultrix 2.0-FT.  I hated it.  I could probably get
used to it, and then I might like it, but I would suggest being able
to disable this for the die-hards.
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