4 Aug
2014
4 Aug
'14
4:54 a.m.
Doug McIlroy:
A symptom of why I have always detested emacs and vi. With ^D, ^C,
and ^\, Unix has more than enough mystery chords to learn.
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What is this ^C mystery chord?
Or can it be that I am actually more wedded to the past than
Doug, in that I still use DEL as my interrupt character?
And, for that matter, @ for kill (though in the modern world
one has to type @ often enough to require learning a different
modern-world mystery chord, ^V).
I break with the past for character-erase, though: backspace,
not #.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON