On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 11/4/16 6:30 AM, Clark Wang wrote: > > For example, if I have inputted the following after the prompt: > > > > # foo "abc" > > > > In bash 4.3's vi-insert mode, when I press ctrl-w it'll delete the whole > > "abc" (including quotes). But with 4.4 I have to press ctrl-w for 3 times > > (one for the right " char, one for abc and one for the left " char). > > This was changed due to a bug report about readline not being Posix- > conformat with its ^W binding in vi insert mode. Posix specifies that > word boundaries include whitespace and punctuation. Apparently vi is > the same, but I'm not enough of a vi user to say. > > The old binding (unix-word-rubout) is still there, but to avoid it being > overwritten, you need to set the readline variable `bind-tty-special-chars' > to `off'. (Since ^W is your default stty werase character, readline will > bind it to its vi-mode equivalent when that variable is enabled.) > This works great. Thanks Chet. > > You would have noticed the ^W binding being overwritten if you had done > a `bind -m vi-insert -p' after one of your key binding commands, but I > suppose there isn't any real reason to do that. > > Chet > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~ > chet/ >
