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Date:      Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:40:09 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        fullermd@linkfast.net (Matthew Fuller), jeroen@vangelderen.org (Jeroen C. van Gelderen), asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami), cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources
Message-ID:  <200004180040.SAA10133@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200004180001.RAA28074@bubba.whistle.com>
References:  <20000416185507.B43688@linkfast.net> <200004180001.RAA28074@bubba.whistle.com>

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> > I think the point is a far bigger portions of users are surprised by how
> > unfriendly and useless the root shell is.  'What, I don't have tab
> > completion?'  'What, I don't have <up> <down> command history and
> > editing?' etc.
> 
> What do people think of adding this to the default .cshrc
> 
>   bindkey ^W backward-delete-word

YUCK!!

> This makes input more consistent with the standard tty driver.
> Instead of deleting the entire line, ^W just deletes the previous word.
> I always end up having to do this.  

Control W is supposed to delete the line.  At least, that's how it's
been for me, but I've been using tcsh since before FreeBSD. :)



Nate




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