Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!gwyn 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. Lines: 8 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.