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 ;)
Alan