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- From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: ksh and canonical kill
- Message-ID: <FRANL.93Jan27121553@draco.centerline.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:15:53 GMT
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- In-reply-to: stuart@TIVOLI.COM's message of 27 Jan 93 02:38:29 GMT
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- stuart@TIVOLI.COM (Stuart Jarriel) writes:
-
- > What setting am I missing? Using ksh, if I use the canonical-kill (^U)
- > in this case, the line is erased, but the cursor drops down to a new line
- > as well.
-
- You have accidentally typed two ^U (canonical kill) characters in a
- row which put you into newline-after-kill-mode (that's just my name
- for it). Type two more to toggle out of newline-after-kill mode. For
- some reason this was purposely designed into the Korn shell.
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