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BackEscapeWord / Ctrl+W behaves incorrectly at the beginning of a line

Open timothyg-stripe opened this issue 5 months ago • 1 comments

When I type Ctrl+W at the first word, the entire line is deleted rather than just the first word

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/64f8246e-354c-4790-834f-516e77857819

timothyg-stripe avatar Nov 11 '25 23:11 timothyg-stripe

Hi, there is an a bit more active fork of readline at https://github.com/ergochat/readline that includes this fix a lot more https://github.com/ergochat/readline/pull/11 maybe interesting

wader avatar Nov 12 '25 08:11 wader