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

Carlos E. R. robin.listas at telefonica.net
Thu Mar 14 06:14:52 PDT 2024


On 2024-03-14 12:59, Rob Wolfcon wrote:

> (once more sending, this time to mailing list for all, not only for Carlos :-) )



:-)



>

> On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, Carlos E. R. 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.

>>

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

>

>

> Hello,

>

> this is a patch

>

> https://alpineapp.email/alpine/info/DelText.html

>

> It's included in patched version https://alpineapp.email/alpine/info/all.html

> or you can apply this patch yourself.

>

> And yes, it deletes the text to the end or to the signature begin :-) (as

> described on the patch page).


Ah, then it is that the distribution changed criteria. First they
published with the patch, then without.

Maybe D. Hugh can report a bug.

--
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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