Re: @ symbol deleting all preceeding input at command line?

From: Atro Tossavainen (Atro.Tossavainen+news_at_helsinki.finland.invalid)
Date: 09/20/05 

Date: 20 Sep 2005 23:30:10 +0300

mkirsch1@rochester.rr.com writes:

> I've tried to replicate the behaviour, and surprise-surprise, I
> can't... Nobody, and I mean NO-BODY, even HP, has ever heard of such a
> thing. Have you?

stty -a

It just might be that the environment is setting the at sign as the
"kill" terminal sequence. 

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