[issue27681] readline: consecutive rl_kill_word do not append

2016-08-04 Thread Quentin Santos
Quentin Santos added the comment: I had not thought of checking gdb. Thanks for the information, I will look into that! -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue27681] readline: consecutive rl_kill_word do not append

2016-08-04 Thread Martin Panter
Martin Panter added the comment: GDB also seems affected. The significance of this is it makes me suspect a bug in Readline’s callback-based “alternative interface”, as opposed to the simpler blocking interface. I know Python and GDB both use the callback API, and that Bash doesn’t. You might

[issue27681] readline: consecutive rl_kill_word do not append

2016-08-04 Thread Quentin Santos
New submission from Quentin Santos: In readline, "kill" basically means "cut" and "yank", "paste. When killing twice in a row, it tries to group the kills. This can be shown to work with rl_unix_word_rubout; with the default emacs keymap, type: >>> hello world Then hit ^W (Control+W, rl_unix_