First, thank you for reporting this.
In line 326 of ed.defns.c in the tcsh source package is:
F_KILLREGION, /* ^W */
Ctrl + W is set to kill-region for the emacs mode, which is the default mode.
In VI mode, it is set to F_DELWORDPREV. I think this is the source of the
confusion.
Ahhh, that did the trick. I should have done my homework more carefully.
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Normally a shell listens to the EDITOR variable but tcsh needs bindkey
-v. I also think that it is a weird decision to make emacs the default
instead of the classic vi, especially since the emacs mode totally
ignores the
