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

[Carlos E. R.]

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El 2024-03-13 a las 10:50 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier escribió:


> 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 didn't know about that combination, but I just tried it and it worked. 
Using openSUSE Leap 15.5, alpine-2.26-lp155.123.1.x86_64

Interesting, it deletes all except the signature. I might find this useful :-)


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Cheers,
        Carlos E. R.
        (from openSUSE 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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