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Re: 9.2 prompt window does not backspace across line break when

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 17 17:30:08 2003

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 17:21, Bill Cattey wrote:
> Am I remembering wrongly?
> When one does a zwrite, and has a long line that wraps to the next line
> in the terminal wondow, one and starts hitting backspace, and deleting
> characters across the beginning of the line, didn't it used to back up 
> to the end of the previously typed characters?

I don't think that's ever been the case.  You can press C-r to redisplay
the current line, though.

(And, your bug reports should always mention what platform you saw the
relevant behavior on.)


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