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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by onedognight on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @10:19AM (#1594738)
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.
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Re:Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing by pohl on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @11:47AM (#1595005)
Should be "ESC k was originally...", right?
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