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From: bitbug@vsi1 (James Buster)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Character echo at read time
Summary: What's wrong with ^U?
Message-ID: <1019@vsi1.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 88 21:27:20 GMT
References: <1059@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <8458@smoke.ARPA> <345@ralph.UUCP>
Sender: bitbug@vsi1.UUCP
Reply-To: bitbug@vsi1 (James Buster)
Organization: Vicom Systems, Inc.
Lines: 9
In-reply-to: pja@ralph.UUCP (Pete Alleman)

In the implementations I've seen, ^U (line kill) flushes the current type-ahead
buffer. Why do we need a new character for an already implemented feature?

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