Re: [Bug-readline] Ctrl-W (erase word) in vi editing-mode has wrong behavior

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/1/17 3:53 PM, John Florian wrote:
> I just reported the following on
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477328:
> 
> """
> 
> Description of problem:
> Ctrl-w now stops at word-breaking characters rather than spaces as it's done 
> for a very long time.

This has come up a few times previously, originally as a result of

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2016-02/msg00001.html

The most recent report is:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2016-11/msg00003.html

The explanation and a way to get the old behavior are here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2016-02/msg00002.html

and here, respectively:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2016-11/msg00004.html

Chet

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