Re: Unable to bind C-w

2009-09-09 Thread rockpiper
On 9 Sep., 08:18, Pierre Gaston wrote: > You can  disable this with: >   bind 'set bind-tty-special-chars  off' Wow, thanks! I actually did try this before, but without the quotes—doh! Thanks again, Rob.

Re: Unable to bind C-w

2009-09-08 Thread Pierre Gaston
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Robert Lillack wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to be unable to rebind Control-W – am I the only one experiencing > this? > ... > What am I doing wrong? > > C-w is a binding inherited from the tty settings, You can disable this with: bind 'set bind-tty-special-chars of

Unable to bind C-w

2009-09-08 Thread Robert Lillack
Hi, I seem to be unable to rebind Control-W – am I the only one experiencing this? I know this annoyed me years ago on FreeBSD and Solaris, and now I stumbled upon this problem again on Mac OS X and Ubuntu: $ bind -p | grep C-w "\C-w": unix-word-rubout $ bind '"\C-w": backward-kill-word' $