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The future of Galeon (GnomeDesktop)
The future of Galeon (GnomeDesktop)
Posted Oct 24, 2005 11:19 UTC (Mon) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: The future of Galeon (GnomeDesktop) by dilinger
Parent article: The future of Galeon (GnomeDesktop)
"Ctrl-U" to "delete left" isn't an Emacs key binding; it's from the Bourne shell tradition. FWIW, I've got used to "ctrl-A ctrl-K", which isn't precisely the same thing, but seems more portable. I've had to give up "ctrl-W" to delete words, because it has an unfortunate (and infuriating!) effect in too many places.
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The future of Galeon (GnomeDesktop)
Posted Oct 24, 2005 12:14 UTC (Mon) by dmm (subscriber, #9815) [Link]
"Kill line" (typically invoked with ctrl-U) is implemented in a terminal driver for the canonical mode. The shell gets the line once it's ready, i.e when user enters CR. A very long time ago people used @ to kill lines. Maybe some still do (you can change the code using the stty program). I guess that at the time either email was not popular or the bang notation prevailed.