• AgreeableLandscape
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    4 years ago

    Which control character is ^W? Is it just the keyboard command to delete a word?

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      4 years ago

      In Firefox the command is to close the current tab.

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      4 years ago

      It’s a joke about failing to delete the last word.

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      4 years ago

      Yeah, in a Linux terminal, you can press Ctrl+W to delete the previous word.