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Re: Ctrl-D [message #7353] Mon, 11 November 1996 00:00
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In article <3286BD15.4943@shapley.colorado.edu>,
Mark Fardal <fardal@shapley.colorado.edu> wrote:

> does anyone know of a way to disable the Ctrl-D key when running on a
> Unix system, or even better set it to what it does in Emacs (delete a
> character in command line)? I like the way the emacs control
> characters (C-a, C-e, C-k) are available for editing the command line,
> but this similarity lulls me into using C-d as well sometimes. Then
> my session is gone instantly. Highly annoying.

I have this same problem. I've gone so far as to complain to RSI about
it, and the response I got was "Well...but people are used to the status
quo and would complain about the change." (More or less anyway.) I
don't know who *expects* ^D to kick them out when they're in the middle
of a command line...

I'm all for a revolution. Viva la' ^D==delete! :-)

Regards,

Brian
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