From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Word erase?
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:59:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7w5xwrdew0.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqGuzzvxAuKJC+nqrmO3yMptskc0bXeQjL4m939MKTH=A@mail.gmail.com> (Warner Losh's message of "Mon, 8 Apr 2024 09:29:49 -0600")
> Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> > TOPS-20 supports it via the familiar ^W, but I'm not sure about
> > other PDP-10 OSes (Lars?).
I haven't seen it in TOPS-10. ITS doesn't have that on the "command
line", but then interaction with DDT isn't (and arguably shouldn't be)
very "wordy" anyway. Of course, TECO and EMACS has word erase. And ^W
is erase between cursor and mark so that's similar.
Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
> ^T made it into BSD and lives on to this day in the BSDs. If I were catty,
> I'd say real unix still can... :) too bad linux never picked it up.
There's a whole Wikipedia page about ^T:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_key
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-08 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-08 15:02 [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2024-04-08 15:15 ` [TUHS] " Marc Donner
2024-04-08 15:18 ` arnold
2024-04-08 15:29 ` Warner Losh
2024-04-08 15:59 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2024-04-08 15:39 ` Larry McVoy
2024-04-08 16:06 ` Rich Salz
2024-04-09 1:51 ` Chris Torek
2024-04-12 15:58 ` Mary Ann Horton
2024-04-08 17:09 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-04-08 22:51 ` Mary Ann Horton
2024-04-12 1:29 ` Joseph Holsten
2024-04-08 16:14 ` Clem Cole
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