Editing Backspace (section)

====Alternatives<span class="anchor" id="^W and ^U"></span>====
An alternative sometimes seen is '''^W''', which is the shortcut to delete the previous word in the Berkeley Unix terminal [[line discipline]]. This shortcut has also made it into the insert mode of the [[Vi (text editor)|Vi]] text editor and its clone [[Vim (text editor)|Vim]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/vimum.html | title=VIM USER MANUAL | publisher=[[FreeBSD]] | date=November 2, 2013 | access-date=May 14, 2016}}</ref>

'''^U''' deletes a line.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vi | title=FreeBSD Man Pages; vi | publisher=Vimonline | date=March 9, 2002 | access-date=May 14, 2016}}</ref>