>In real emacs, and in ksh93 (and you say in bash), the cut buffer is
>appended to by subsequent multi-character deletes (ESC BACKSPACE, ^W,
>etc), if and only if no cursor movements occur between each deletion.

itym iff *nothing else at all* happens between each deletion.

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