Re: [Help-bash] vim mode changes

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/10/17 11:25 PM, Chadwick Rogers 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.

This is another change resulting from readline's new implementation of the
Posix vi-mode editing standard. ^W now uses the Posix definition of word
boundaries.  You can bind ^W to its old command name (unix-word-rubout) to
get the old behavior back in addition to unsetting bind-tty-special-chars.

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

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