ctrl-w oddity on bash-4.4

2017-10-22 Thread Aron Griffis
I'm seeing some strange behavior and don't know if it's a bug or intended. Reproducer: 1. env INPUTRC=/dev/null bash --norc 2. set -o vi 3. true --foo=bar 4. up arrow, then left arrow to put the cursor on the equals sign 5. press ctrl-w, nothing happens I bisected master and found it was introduc

Re: ctrl-w oddity on bash-4.4

2017-10-22 Thread Eduardo A . Bustamante López
On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 06:52:12PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: > I'm seeing some strange behavior and don't know if it's a bug or intended. [...] > If this is intentional then I'd be curious about the rationale. Please read: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2016-11/msg4.html I bel

Re: ctrl-w oddity on bash-4.4

2017-10-22 Thread Aron Griffis
On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López < dual...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 06:52:12PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: > > I'm seeing some strange behavior and don't know if it's a bug or > intended. > [...] > > If this is intentional then I'd be curious about th

Re: ctrl-w oddity on bash-4.4

2017-10-22 Thread Eduardo A . Bustamante López
On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 10:15:54PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: [...] > Thanks Eduardo. The clue there about bind-tty-special-chars is helpful, > since previously I hadn't been able to make unix-word-rubout work either! > > However this doesn't seem to explain the case where ctrl-w doesn't work at >