Character echo at read time

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1019 at vsi1.UUCP> bitbug at vsi1 (James Buster) writes:
>In the implementations I've seen, ^U (line kill) flushes the current
>type-ahead buffer.

(Assuming you've seen implementations like UNIX:)
No it doesn't; it flushes the input line currently being canonicalized.
Lines before the nearest preceding delimiter (newline or "EOF") have
already been sent on to another queue and ^U doesn't affect them.