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Re: 9.2 prompt window does not backspace across line break when
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Jun 17 17:32:33 2003
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Ah. ^r. I was trying ^l and that didn't work.
Ok.
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 17:30, Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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.)
