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Re: [Help-bash] How to make vi-insert mode's ctrl-w work in the 4.3 way?
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: [Help-bash] How to make vi-insert mode's ctrl-w work in the 4.3 way? |
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Fri, 4 Nov 2016 10:40:00 -0400 |
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On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 10:32:17AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 11/4/16 6:30 AM, Clark Wang wrote:
> > For example, if I have inputted the following after the prompt:
> >
> > # foo "abc"
> >
> > In bash 4.3's vi-insert mode, when I press ctrl-w it'll delete the whole
> > "abc" (including quotes). But with 4.4 I have to press ctrl-w for 3 times
> > (one for the right " char, one for abc and one for the left " char).
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> This was changed due to a bug report about readline not being Posix-
> conformat with its ^W binding in vi insert mode. Posix specifies that
> word boundaries include whitespace and punctuation. Apparently vi is
> the same, but I'm not enough of a vi user to say.
Both vim (versions 6.1 and 7.4) and /usr/bin/vi (on HP-UX 10.20) act
this way.