Re: [vox-tech] Re: vox-tech Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2

["Mark K. Kim" <lugod@cbreak.orMAPSg>]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Micah Cowan wrote:

> Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> >I forgot to list another major annoyance for me: I'm so used to emacs style
> >editing in bash, that ctrl-u is burned into my brain as "clear line".
> >Unfortunately, it displays the page source on FF.  I've clicked away more
> >page sources than I care to admit.
> >
> C-u is not an emacs thing (take it from an emacs user). It's a terminal
> thing. Emacs uses C-u for something *completely* different.
>
> This means you can also use it to erase your currently entered password
> at a login prompt, if you completely lose track of where you were.

It's a readline thing, no?

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