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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Character echo at read time
Message-ID: <8552@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 21 Sep 88 01:36:43 GMT
References: <1059@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <8458@smoke.ARPA> <345@ralph.UUCP> <1019@vsi1.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1019@vsi1.UUCP> bitbug@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.