Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!amdcad!phil From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Change ESC to ^U in COMMAND.COM line editor Message-ID: <21550@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 11 May 88 06:40:03 GMT References: <779@acornrc.UUCP> Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices Lines: 28 Summary: here it is In article <779@acornrc.UUCP> bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) writes: >I can't take it any more! After years of having systems which >used CTRL-U as the line kill character, I simply cannot get used >to using ESC, as the COMMAND.COM line editor wants. I think this is of general interest so I'll repost this. In article <307@cognos.UUCP>, brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell) writes: . In almost every version I used up to and including 3.1, there has . been a Ctrl-U and Ctrl-W keystroke which is recognized. [For those of . you who didn't know of or didn't have these features, Ctrl-U erases the . entire line (similar to ESC, but on the same line) and Ctrl-W erases . backward to the last non-alphanumeric character]. . .The following code fragment is identical in both DOS 3.10 and DOS 3.20 -- it .is located at offset (using DEBUG) 1DB9 in former and 1E96 in the latter. . . 3C 17 CMP AL,17 . 74 5E JZ $+60 . 3C 15 CMP AL,15 . 74 51 JZ $+53 I found that this function is present in DOS 3.3 as well. The offset is 2119. -- Make Japan the 51st state! I speak for myself, not the company. Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com