Re: Firefox crippling (was: What next?)

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:07:02AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> >^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?

via emacs. Traditional unix never had 'delete word'. I suspect it may have
come via teco originally but lets not mention that too many times in case
it comes back to life ;)

Alan