On 2025-07-09 11:40:17 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/9/25 10:56 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > A \C-u setting in the .inputrc file such as
> >
> > "\C-u": kill-whole-line
> >
> > is ignored if ^U is the kill character (usual tty settings).
>
> This is controlled by the readline variable `bind-tty-special-chars',
> which is enabled by default. It's been that way since bash-3.1, which
> was released in 2005.
So, this should be the equivalent of the kill character, i.e.
"erase the current line", which corresponds to kill-whole-line
("Kill all characters on the current line, no matter where
point is"), but this is not what I get.
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