To follow up, this was just implemented in two recent PRs: https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/pull/1712 https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/pull/1715
unix-filename-rubout deletes everything back to the previous /, backward-delete-word deletes everything back to the last non-alphanumeric character. -Ryan On Fri 07/29/16 10:05PM, Ryan Roden-Corrent wrote: > This PR [https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/pull/1592] changed the > behavior to match readline's unix-word-rubout. What you're looking for is what > readline calls 'unix-filename-rubout'. You can press ctrl-backspace for this > behavior, but it can't be rebound. I've filed an issue for this, as I find it > useful as well: https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/issues/1710. > > On Fri 07/29/16 04:19PM, Ernesto Gabriel wrote: > > hey dev, > > > > Before the latest update, pressing Control-W when there was prompt in the > > statusbar deleted everything back to a slash or space. > > Now, it deletes everything back to the space, and it's annoying because > > when it prompts "save file to", it deletes the entire suggested path and > > requires me to type in the path again. > > How can I revert this behavior? > > > > sincerely, > > > > a fan of qutebrowser.
