Re: misc/52344: editline ^W mis-behaviour?

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/52344; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: misc/52344: editline ^W mis-behaviour?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 04:28:18 +0700

     Date:        Mon, 26 Jun 2017 19:45:00 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        bch <brad.harder=40gmail.com>
     Message-ID:  <20170626194500.519A87A1B9=40mollari.NetBSD.org>
 
   =7C 	=5EW (control-w) appears to be working like =5EU, deleting entire =
 line
   =7C instead of expected single previous word
 
 From this I am assuming you are in emacs mode (echo =24- should show 'E' =
 amongst
 other characters.)
 
 In emacs mode, =5EW is bound to =22em-kill-region=22 (see editline(7)) an=
 d
 em-kill-region apparently deletes to the =22mark=22 which in your case I
 assuming is being set at beginning of line (and I observed that too,
 though I would normally never go near anything that even smelled of emacs=
 ).
 
 Again according to editline(7) the emacs mode equiv of =5EW in vi mode
 (or when no line editing is enabled and the tty driver is doing it)
 is Ctrl-Meta-H or Ctrl-Meta-? which I cannot test, as those combinations
 do not make it to regular applications the way I have my X and window
 manager configured.)
 
 You could bind =5EW to ed-delete-word instead of em-kill-region for emacs=
 
 mode, or you could do the sane thing and just switch to vi mode.
 See editline(7) and editrc(5).
 
 kre