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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 15 2007 - 22:39:08 CST

Dallas,
  It depends on the console/platform combination and whether your
terminal has the right backspace key settings or not. On many
unix systems, an easy way of zapping everything you've typed is to
press ctrl-u. Whether that works (and the other keys for that
matter) has a lot to do with your stty settings. In MS Windows
you can use the backspace key pretty reliably. If you've managed to
type in multiple lines, it gets trickier as Tcl won't like stopping
at that point, and so you sometimes end up having to type various
] or } characters to get it to let you off the hook. TkCon is the
friendlier console in most cases since it doesn't care about whether
or not you've got your stty/xterm terminal settings correctly set.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 03:23:01PM +1100, Dallas B. Warren wrote:
> Stupid question, but how do you delete things / text you have typed onto
> the command line within the vmd console?
>
> Catch ya,
>
> Dr. Dallas Warren
> Lecturer
> Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology
> Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University
> 381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3010
> dallas.warren_at_vcp.monash.edu.au
> +61 3 9903 9524
> ---------------------------------
> When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble
> a nail. 

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