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From: jerry@oliveb.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BSD new tty driver: ^W (werase)
Message-ID: <19543@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Date: 7 Apr 88 00:23:16 GMT
References: <1221@ark.cs.vu.nl> <10888@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
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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?

The "vi" editor handles word erase differently from the tty driver.  It
uses its own definition of a "word" in which "/" as well as a number of
other characters besides whitespace are word separators.  I genarally
find it more useful and become anoyed when the tty driver erases too
much.