On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:13:44AM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> William Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would still like to know if there's a way to bind ^W to
> > backward-kill-word within bash, so if anyone has suggestions, I'd
> > appreciate them.
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Arrgh... Ok, so the good news is that I checked the archives; the bad
news is that I checked them after reading:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2005-08/msg3.html
trying ^x ^r does indeed make it work for that line.
jazz:$ stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 38; columns 80; line = 140
So I don't really like posting this to a bugs list, since I have no idea
if this is a bug, but I tried this on a couple of general UNIX related
lists, and haven't had any luck.
I have ^W bound to "backward-kill-word" in my .inputrc. On FreeBSD, Red
Hat Linux, FC4, and anything else with a bash ver