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

[bch <brad.harder%gmail.com@localhost>]

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

From: bch <brad.harder%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: misc-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: misc/52344: editline ^W mis-behaviour?
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:56:20 -0700

 Yes, as everyone has pointed out, it was an error on *my* part wrt
 what mode was being emulated, though Christos did find an opportunity
 for a drive-by patch.
 
 I was probably a bit expectant of an issue because of other occasional
 shell issues in the course of its refactoring that I didn't look deep
 enough before reporting.
 
 My apologies, this can be closed.
 
 On 6/26/17, Robert Elz <kre%munnari.oz.au@localhost> wrote:
 > 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
 > Cc:
 > 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
 >
 >
 >