> Ignoring all this, I take it that it's not something strange that I'm
> doing and other people also see ^W act like kill and not werase?

You're not alone; I see it too.

Since these days most of my input-line-editing consists of sh with "set
-o emacs" in effect, where I don't use EOF often, this is the most
annoying single case, for me, of line editing ignoring stty settings.
So far it's just annoying, not serious, because it happens only when I
explicitly turn on line editing - losing word-erase is a price I know
I'm paying for getting the rest of line editing.

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