BackwardKillWord bound to Escape,Backspace not working

[nemws1]

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Steps to reproduce

I believe this is a default KeyHandler, but ESC-Backspace is no longer working for me. The other handlers using Escape all seem to work (ESC-u and ESC-l to upper/lowercase a word, ESC-b and ESC-f to move forward/backword by word, ESC-d to forward kill a word, etc.). But ESC-Backspace just does ... nothing.

I set a new handler for 'Escape,Delete' to do a BackwardKillWord and that works, so it seems the problem is something with my Escape key.

My backspace in a normal terminal sends a Ctrl-H. It's been that way for years, but this stopped working a couple months ago.

Expected behavior

Pressing Escape,Backspace should delete the word before the current cursor location.

Actual behavior

Nothing happens.

Error details

No error is produced.

Environment data

PS> get-psReadLineKeyHandler -Chord "Escape,Backspace"

Basic editing functions
=======================

Key              Function         Description
---              --------         -----------
Escape,Backspace BackwardKillWord Move the text from the start of the current
                                  or previous word to the cursor to the kill
                                  ring
PS> $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.6.2
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.6.2
OS                             macOS 14.8.7
Platform                       Unix
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.4
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Visuals

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[nemws1]

I should add ... I'm running in an XTerm. I tried the normal Mac Terminal app and ESC-Backspace IS working correctly there. Again, this worked fine in my Xterm a few months ago and I haven't changed anything in Xquartz/Xterm.

Powershell 7.6.2 and PSReadLine 2.4.5

Is there any way I get Powershell to report what it thinks I'm pressing when I'm pressing Backspace?

[kilasuit]

Dongbo Wang (@daxian-dbw) Should this be in the PRReadline repo? if such can we move this across to that repo please?