Off-topic: ^W is more efficient and carries the same connotation of a strikethrough. I only recently found out about ^W myself, so am curious whether you actively chose ^H (character delete) over ^W (word delete), or whether this is something that people don't know about as bash/emacs commands?
I feel that ^H is more widely known because those are the actual characters that people used to see in older terminals before remembering to type "stty erase ^H".
