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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