Re: Firefox crippling (was: What next?)

[Kenneth Porter <shiva sewingwitch com>]

--On Monday, June 06, 2005 8:16 AM -0500 Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net> 
wrote:

> Once upon a time, Alan Cox <alan redhat com> said:
> > [I find it funny people call it "Unix like" keybindings btw,
> > historically its nothing like 'unix keybindings'  8)]
>
> ^W is a Unix "delete previous word" keybinding.

I remember using that on TOPS-20 in the early 80's. Did it inherit the 
command line hot keys from early Unix?

I usually get burned using control-W in the command buffer of Lugaru 
Epsilon, a commercial Emacs clone (available for Win32, Linux, and BSD). In 
that context it "wipes" everything back to the last mark, which if one 
wasn't explicitly set, defaults to the start of the buffer. If I then 
mindlessly yank, it pastes the entire command buffer into the current 
command line. Fortunately this now generates a popup warning asking me if I 
really want to paste 1000's of command lines. (Lugaru is very responsive to 
user requests.)