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X-Istence
on Aug 11, 2010
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Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing
Ctrl + K is emacs? As far as I am aware it is available to every program on Unix through readline. See this wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_key#Examples
sophacles
on Aug 11, 2010
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It was originally an emacs binding. Then readline picked it up as part of its "emacs-style bindings". The name is not only cute, but also descriptive.
onedognight
on Aug 11, 2010
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It was originally the terminal escape sequence for kill to end of line (ESC k) which is what emacs used to emit when you typed Ctrl-k.
pohl
on Aug 11, 2010
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Should be "ESC k was originally...", right?
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