Binding backward-kill-word to Ctrl+w

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Mar 15, 20267005 views

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I'm trying to switch from prolonged use of Tcsh to recent exploration of Bash. I've managed to port over all my favorite features, except for Ctrl+w which treats spaces and slashes as word boundaries, most likely backward-kill-word. In Bash however readline deletes all the way to the first space, d…

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does not bind over Ctrl-W since it is handled by the terminal driver by default: To disable this, you have to run (in ): will not help here since it is read when Ctrl-W is still assigned to . Also note that format keyseqs must be enclosed in double-…

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Binding backward-kill-word to Ctrl+w

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