backspaceable
English
Etymology
backspace + -able
Adjective
backspaceable (not comparable)
- (computing, rare) Supporting a backspace function.
- 1992, "Joseph M. Newcomer", ASCII (on newsgroup alt.folklore.computers)
- The reason was to allow the newer backspaceable Teletypes and their code-compatible derivatives to represent the international character sets more readily.
- 2009, "Richard Maine", Error writing on unit 22 (on newsgroup comp.lang.fortran)
- Anyway, the standard does allow for non-backspaceable files, at the compiler's choice.
- 1992, "Joseph M. Newcomer", ASCII (on newsgroup alt.folklore.computers)