Re: bash 4.4 - (readline) regression in the behaviour of ^W in vi-mode

[Gian Piero Carrubba]

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* [Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 09:38:04AM -0500] Chet Ramey:
> On 3/3/17 5:47 AM, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > this is a copy of Debian bug 838437 [0]. I'm posting it here because I
> > failed to find it mentioned in the ml archives. Please disregard if it's
> > been already reported.
>
> It seems related to this:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2016-11/msg00004.html

Hi Chet,

thank for your prompt response.
It is related in the sense they both have been introduced by the same 
feature (I've got the workaround from there), but imho it should be 
treated differently (I actually consider the behaviour described in the 
other thread as correct). Following the examples provided in the 
previous mail, you can see that in some circumstances Ctrl-W does 
nothing or, maybe worse, it works the first time and not subsequent 
ones.

Best,
Gian Piero.