8 Apr
2024
8 Apr
'24
9:59 p.m.
Dan Cross <crossd(a)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(a)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