[Revised to correct filename in cat command, sorry] On a Mac:
mkdir -p $HOME/Library/KeyBindings
cat >$HOME/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict <<EOF
{
"^u" = "deleteToBeginningOfLine:";
"^w" = "deleteWordBackward:";
}
EOF
will make ^U and ^W work across all applications.
Russ
