• Bug#708979: \C-u still broken

    From Vincent Lefevre@21:1/5 to Vincent Lefevre on Wed Jul 9 16:10:01 2025
    On 2024-08-10 12:15:37 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
    These issues are still present in readline. I've just reported the
    following bug against libreadline8t64 for \C-u:

    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1078428

    About the bug with \C-u, the real issue (both in bash and readline)
    is actually that the \C-u setting such as

    "\C-u": kill-whole-line

    in the .inputrc file is ignored if ^U is the kill character.

    I could check that by changing this setting to

    "\C-u": backward-word

    Either setting is honored only after a "stty kill undef" *before*
    executing the command (such as bash or the readline-based gp).

    I've also mentioned that at

    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1078428#10

    for libreadline8t64.

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