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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

  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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