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  1. Bug #64361
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Comment 1 for bug 64361

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Jeremy Teale (jteale) wrote :

First, thank you for reporting this.
In line 326 of ed.defns.c in the tcsh source package is:
F_KILLREGION, /* ^W */
Ctrl + W is set to kill-region for the emacs mode, which is the default mode. In VI mode, it is set to F_DELWORDPREV. I think this is the source of the confusion.
kill-region "cuts" everything from the beginning of the line to the cursor, while Ctrl + U just does the whole line. Such is the default behavior.
You can set your version shell variable to include "vi" to get back the behavior I *think* you're used to.
I'll mark this as rejected, please reopen if you feel this to be incorrect.