Re: backward kill

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Jesper Holmberg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am using the emacs key bindings. If I've written the following:
> 
> /path/to/some/file
> 
> with the prompt at the end, and I press alt-backspace, the whole path is
> wiped out. I would like it to just remove backwards to the last (first
> from the end) slash. How could I accomplish this?

Use the bash-backward-kill-word widget, supplied with 4.0 and 4.1.  (The
other bash-* variants are only supplied with 4.1).

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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