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Re: can't just hold down ^K to clean up history
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: can't just hold down ^K to clean up history |
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Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:54:47 -0400 |
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On 10/17/13 12:37 AM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
>>> Also why can't we just hold down ^K^K^K^K^K^K^K^K^K ?
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> CD> Why do you expect to be able to do that? C-k in readline deletes to the
> end of
> CD> the current line. There's no reason why it should also get the next line.
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> Ah ha, but there is also no reason why it should not!
It's the difference between a line-oriented command editing tool and
a screen editor.
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