Re: Readline vi-like, what are the keyword character?

On Saturday, April 5, 2014 8:05:58 PM UTC+13, aRkadeFR wrote:

> Why Ctrl^w doesn't remove only the previous word?

It's from the ancient teletype line handling. If I run

$ stty -a | grep werase

I see
werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;

So,
$ stty werase ^@
$ bind c-w: backward-kill-word

is a lot closer to vim, but not the same, in that in your example one "/" char are included in each word.

You could put the "stty werase ^@" in your .bashrc. (That worked for me.)

Note that the usual place for bash key bindings is ~/.inputrc, and if you want an insert mode binding it's tricky (maybe because bash isn't in insert mode yet when .inputrc is processed). My .inputrc now looks like:

set keymap vi-command
"]": vi-yank-arg
set keymap vi-insert
"\C-l": clear-screen
"\C-w": backward-kill-word

Regards, John Little

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