On the Asterisk CLI, I notice that pressing Ctrl-W deletes the entire line of text, as opposed to just the last word. Is this an artifact of using editline instead of readline? I'll note that other Emacs-style keypresses work just fine on the Asterisk CLI, but Ctrl-W is a real pain. I would go so far as to call this a bug as it is certainly behaviour that differs from what the user expects.
Here are my system details: *CLI> core show version Asterisk 11.5.1 built by dotancohen @ eris on a x86_64 running Linux on 2013-10-07 19:20:49 UTC *CLI> Asterisk cleanly ending (0). Executing last minute cleanups - eris():~$ uname -a Linux eris 3.8.0-34-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 18:00:10 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux - eris():~$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 13.04 \n \l Interestingly, I don't even seem to have editline installed and thus Asterisk is likely using its own packaged editline: - eris():~$ aptitude search editline p libeditline-dev - development files for libeditline p libeditline-dev:i386 - development files for libeditline p libeditline0 - line editing library similar to readline p libeditline0:i386 - line editing library similar to readline p libghc-editline-dev - Haskell bindings to the BSD editline library (libedit p libghc-editline-dev:i386 - Haskell bindings to the BSD editline library (libedit v libghc-editline-dev-0.2.1.1-b3dee - v libghc-editline-dev-0.2.1.1-c95e1:i386 - p libghc-editline-doc - Haskell bindings to the BSD editline library (libedit Thank you! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users