Re: [Help-bash] vim mode changes

[Clark Wang]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Chadwick Rogers <address@hidden>
wrote:

> I found this old thread:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2016-11/msg00004.html
>
> But my scenario is slightly different.  Run bash in vi-mode, type "echo
> hello world", press enter, press up arrow on your keyboard, press the home
> key to jump to the beginning of the line followed by the right arrow to the
> end of 'hello' or press the left arrow to the end of 'hello', press ctrl+w,
> the word will not delete.  Go back to the end of the line, press ctrl+w
> three times and deleting works fine all the way to the beginning of the
> line.  Adding "set bind-tty-special-chars off" to my inputrc has no effect
> on this.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

I have the following in my bashrc:

    bind 'set bind-tty-special-chars off'
    bind -m vi-insert '"\C-w": unix-word-rubout'

Not sure if it works for you. (I'm on a Mac now and have no idea which key
combo is equal to Home. Will try your problem later on a Linux.)