On 2015-11-23, "Anthony J. Bentley" <[email protected]> wrote:

> When I hit backspace after a backslash, usually I just want to delete
> the backslash. I don't think I've ever intended to input a literal ^?.
> If I ever did want to insert ^H, ^?, or ^U, I would just type ^V first.

FWIW, I suspect this feature simply predates the existence of LNEXT (^V).
The 1992 edition of Stevens calls LNEXT a SVR4 and 4.3+BSD extension.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [email protected]

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