Subject: Re: ksh bugs and behaviour questions
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/09/2002 17:04:44
[ On Monday, December 9, 2002 at 21:05:27 (+0100), Thomas Klausner wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: ksh bugs and behaviour questions
>
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:59:48PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > . ctrl-y doesn't append to last ctrl-y
> >   bash does this, and I find it quite nice when wanting to some parts in
> >   the middle of a previous line
> 
> Ok, this should have been:
> . ctrl-w doesn't append to last ctrl-w
>   bash does this, and I find it quite nice when wanting to edit some parts in
>   the middle of a previous line

Ah, yes, that's a more interesting question....

In real emacs, and in ksh93 (and you say in bash), the cut buffer is
appended to by subsequent multi-character deletes (ESC BACKSPACE, ^W,
etc), if and only if no cursor movements occur between each deletion.

I too wish pdksh worked the same way!  ;-)

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