On 8/26/21 10:18 PM, d...@dabe.com wrote:

Bash Version: 5.1
Patch Level: 8
Release Status: release

Description:
        The manpage for bash(1) says:

           unix-filename-rubout
               Kill the word behind point, ***USING WHITE SPACE AND THE SLASH
              CHARACTER AS THE WORD BOUNDARIES***.  The killed text is saved
               on the kill-ring.   [Emphasis mine]

        In certain circumstances, however, it gobbles up too much.

Thanks for the report. That circumstance is a pathname consisting solely of
one or more slashes, separated from the previous word by whitespace. I'll
fix it.


PS: I'm hopeful there might be some kind of workaround that will work even
on those dated releases!  [crossing fingers]

The code has been like this since January, 2004. That's pretty dated.

--
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                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    c...@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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