Re: defining Esc key to delete line in Command Window

On 05/03/2021 04:13 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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> Hi there,
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> Thanks to all the OCTAVE developers.
> I had posted this suggestion before (when I started working with OCTAVE 4).
> Please consider defining Escape key for deleting the entire line in the
> command window.
> I can explain why this is important, if you are interested.
>

If implemented, this would absolutely have to be configurable.  Not
everyone in the world works the same way.  Ask a 'vi' user whether Esc
should be mapped to kill-line and you will get a hostile response.

You might look into readline bindings and your .inputrc if you want to
configure how line-editing works.

--Rik