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They came from emacs. Readline is now around v6, readline v2 seems to have been from the mid 1990s. There is a smaller set of standard commands for killing (C
by mturmon 16y ago
They came from emacs. Readline is now around v6, readline v2 seems to have been from the mid 1990s.
There is a smaller set of standard commands for killing (C-h for char, C-w for word, C-u for line) which are used in many terminal apps. They are orthogonal to emacs, and probably about as old (1970s).
- spudlyo 16y agoThose emacs style editing commands actually came from TECO in the 70s. Crazy that those editing commands are hardwired into my brain nearly 40 years later.