BSD new tty driver: ^W (werase)

Sat Apr 2 02:01:22 AEST 1988

In article <1221 at ark.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>Isn't it a good idea to let the ^W (word erase) command
>erase not only ... but also to the previous slash?
[example of long pathname with embedded error deleted]

DEC did this in Ultrix 2.0-FT.  I hated it.  I could probably get
used to it, and then I might like it, but I would suggest being able
to disable this for the die-hards.
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