[TUHS] Word erase?

[Lars Brinkhoff]

> Dan Cross <crossd at 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 at 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