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. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
