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teddyh on July 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Master Emacs in one year

Ctrl-w as “backward-kill-word” is a Unixism from the classic Unix TTY, you can’t blame Emacs for that one.

recoil on July 25, 2014 [–]

Indeed. Ctrl-w in Emacs is actually "kill-region".

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