Hi John,
> It seems I might have come across an actual bug this time :-)
perhaps ;) But thanks for writing anyway, it’s always nice to
see what users run into.
> From the man page:
>
> kill-region: ^W
> Deletes the input between the cursor and the mark.
But also from the manpage:
delete-word-backward: [n] Pfx1+ERASE (^[^H), WERASE (^W), ^[^?, ^[^H, ^[h
I fear that, when WERASE is defined by stty(1), it overwrites the
prior definition of kill-region.
If you want to rebind it to kill-region independent on stty(1),
add “bind ^W=kill-region” to your ~/.mkshrc file.
If your WERASE is set to something else, it’d likewise overwrite
that. HP/UX is famous for having # bound to VINTR (IIRC), meaning
every time you write # there it acts as if you had pressed ^C.
> Is this a bug?
This is how I was taught Unix terminals behave. Note that those
settings documented in the manual page are only the default; run
“bind” to find out the currently active ones. We even define some
default bindings for OS/2…
I guess this is “a missing FAQ entry”. (Feel free to write in
with suggestions for that as well.)
> Other commands, like evaluate-region, work fine.
There’s a bug in evaluate-region that it seems to work only once,
sometimes, which I have yet to find, unfortunately.
bye,
//mirabilos
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