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Subject: Re: VM bogon? Was: Re: NIS breakage 
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:07:50 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> You could still use "?" unless you want to introduce help in editing
> context.  It would be as natural for Del to delete fields as well drivers
> (i.e., unnatural :-).  Del is fairly useless as an editing key (unless
> the Backspace key generates it) since the field editor is so primitive
> that Del is equivalent to Backspace.

Actually, while we're on the topic, I wouldn't mind ^X and ^U working
as "erase entire field" characters either.  I spend a lot of time
backspacing over stuff in the field editor. :-)

					Jordan