[erlang-patches] make edlin understand a few important control keys

[Stefan Zegenhagen]

Dear all,

the patch attached to this e-mail teaches edlin.erl a few more important
control keys that many users might have become *VERY* accustomed to. The
control keys are:

 - <CTRL>+W	: backward kill word
 - <CTRL>+U	: backward kill line
 - <HOME>	: goto start of line
 - <END>	: goto end of line
 - <CTRL>+<LEFT>  : backward word
 - <CTRL>+<RIGHT> : forward word

With this patch in place, command line editing in erlang's own shell as
well as in any input using io:get_line() comes a little closer to that
in many contemporary shells.


Kind regards,

-- 
Dr. Stefan Zegenhagen

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