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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources
In-Reply-To: <20000416185507.B43688@linkfast.net> from Matthew Fuller at "Apr 16, 2000 06:55:07 pm"
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Matthew Fuller writes:
> 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

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.  

-Archie

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