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Shortening the rope

Shortening the rope

Posted Apr 7, 2009 0:39 UTC (Tue) by droundy (subscriber, #4559)
In reply to: Shortening the rope by nye
Parent article: Shortening the rope

Actually, I've done this myself more times than I'd care to admit. I use alt-backspace all the time in bash (is there another word-kill key?), and on my laptop the alt and ctrl keys are adjacent, so it's very easy to accidentally hold them both down. :(


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Shortening the rope

Posted Apr 9, 2009 15:38 UTC (Thu) by RobSeace (subscriber, #4435) [Link]

> is there another word-kill key?

CTRL-W is how I've always done it... CTRL-U to take out the whole line, CTRL-W to wipe just the previous word...

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