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[–] Interstellar_1 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Delete until start of line. So essentially equivalent to spamming backspace a bunch.

[–] goodnessme 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It deletes all keystrokes that have been entered. So, if you know you made a typo when entering your password, you don't have to press backspace many times to make sure you have deleted all the characters before starting over but you can just press ctrl+u and start over.

[–] Interstellar_1 1 points 1 year ago

ah neat, thanks.