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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: BSD new tty driver: ^W (werase)
Message-ID: <1221@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 31 Mar 88 22:27:28 GMT
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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Isn't it a good idea to let the ^W (word erase) command
erase not only to the previous space, tab or begin of line,
but also to the previous slash?
Haven't you made often a typo like the following?

	ls -l /usr/xpool/news/comp/unix/questions

In csh the easiest way to recover is to type return, hit del
and type ^x^s :-(
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