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Re:Why is the terminal input so weird? by theblazehen on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:31PM (#33629140)
> I'm guessing that the rough flow of the delete word signal is iTerm -> Fish -> iPython and that iPython is the thing that's being overzealous?

Almost correct. Once you launch iPython, Fish is out of the picture until you quit iPython. However yes iPython does handle Ctrl-W differently from your shell

Re:Why is the terminal input so weird? by drcongo on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:41PM (#33629353)
Thanks, that helps narrow it down. Next to work out how to make it behave more like fish, as Ctrl+w deleting the entire string `test.func('param1',` seems like madness to me.