[Alpine-info] what happened to ^W^X (delete rest of text)?

[Bret Busby]

On 13/3/24 22:50, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> I'm using Alpine 2.26 from Fedora Linux's repo.

> 

> When composing a message, I used to be able to type ^W^X to delete from

> the current position to the end of the message.

> 

> I admit that the sequence was quite odd: how does ^W (Whereis) logically

> encompass "delete from here on"?  But I got used to that feature.

> 

> In a recent update, the feature disappeared (or became disabled).

> Can I re-enable it?

> 

> Common sense says that ^^ (mark) and ^K (delete from mark to current

> position) is a better choice, but my fingers know ^W^X.



I am not sure, but, from memory ^W means write (character) to the end of 
the line, and ^X is like <x> in vi; delete character; thence, the 
combination means delete each character to the end of the line.

That is my guesstimate...

I could be wrong...

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Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
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