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[bakum123]

instead of deleting a word when you press the backsapce key, it puts a line through the wordthen...


question : what does the above underlined part mean?

[pugachevV]

word If you move the underline up so that it is exactly half way through the letters instead of under them, you will have the meaning of "puts a line through the word."
It is how we used to delete mistakes in the old days before computers and white out..