[ On Thursday, March 2, 2000 at 01:30:43 (-0500), der Mouse wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: ^W killed my line
>
> Since these days most of my input-line-editing consists of sh with "set
> -o emacs" in effect, where I don't use EOF often, this is the most
> annoying single case, for me, of line editing ignoring stty settings.
> So far it's just annoying, not serious, because it happens only when I
> explicitly turn on line editing - losing word-erase is a price I know
> I'm paying for getting the rest of line editing.

In emacs mode you don't lose word-erase capability.  It is:  <ESC><BACKSPACE>

(If you haven't done "stty intr ^?" then <ESC><DELETE> will work too.)

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