Control-W word erase in tcsh
Steve Chew
schew@interzone.com
Thu Apr 18 11:24:00 GMT 2002
>>
>> Hello,
>> Using the latest Cygwin under Win98 and Win2k (though this has occured
>> in all versions of Cygwin I've used). When I try to use a Control-W under tcsh
>> it erases the entire line instead of just the previous word. It happens
>
>Default setting in tcsh.
>
>> whether I'm in the console or using an xterm (rxvt). It works properly
>> when using bash.
>>
>> Is there an option that I can set to make it work? Or perhaps a
>> termcap entry that needs to be modified?
>
>Did you try `man tcsh'?
>
Sigh. OK, sometimes I'm an idiot. :) I always thought that the
word-erase was set by stty, but that's not the case in tcsh. Instead
it needs bindkey. Thanks for the pointer.
Steve
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