I can't type for toffee on a Kinesis keyboard -- I am far too accustomed to a standard layout (Alt-Backspace is particularly awkward).
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Cute article on how backspace (referred to as "rubout") interacts with parsing in a lisp interpreter, and how that affects the behaviour of literals:
Discovered C-S-backspace for kill-whole-line in Emacs today. No more C-a C-k hammering!