Re: ctrl-w oddity on bash-4.4

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/22/17 10:08 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:

>  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2016-11/msg00004.html
> 
> I believe this is the entry in the change log describing the change, although
> I'm unable to find Carlos' original report in the archives:
> 
> | lib/readline/vi_mode.c
> |        - rl_vi_unix_word_rubout: new function, implements ^W as Posix 
> specifies
> |          it for vi mode, using whitespace and punctuation characters as word
> |          boundaries. Prompted by question from Carlos Pita
> |          <carolosjosepita@gmail.com>

I haven't looked at this yet, but:

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

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