Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!vsi1!bitbug@vsi1 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? -------------------------------------------- James Buster Mad Hacker Extraordinaire ...!{ames,sun,decwrl}!vsi1!bitbug vsi1!bitbug@ames.arc.nasa.gov --------------------------------------------