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ctrl-w deletes words with punctuation instead of whitespace boundary #146044

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I am used to ctrl-w deleting entire words, using whitespace as the boundary. Based on https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.14/Lib/_pyrepl/reader.py#L81, I think the Python REPL is supposed to do that?

However, ctrl-w currently deletes words using punctuation+whitespace as the boundary.

CPython versions tested on:

3.14

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macOS

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gh-146044: Fix ctrl-w (unix-word-rubout) to use whitespace word boundaries #146174

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Fix ctrl-w (unix-word-rubout) to use whitespace word boundaries (pyth…
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Add NEWS entry for pythongh-146044
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Address review: rename bow_ws, move tests to TestReader, add tab support
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