Re:Unix Tricks
by danielweber on Thursday July 03, 2014 @10:08AM
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ISTR pressing one of those keys would obliterate the part of my line where I was writing, putting in ^B characters.
I can't replicate it now on my test box; it works exactly the way you say it should. It may be a terminal issue; I'm currently on Windows using cygwin to ssh to Linux.
It's so ingrained I had to actually do it in a shell to know what it was I did.