BackwardKillWord will delete two word

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start with the BackwardKillWord handler configured by Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler and reproduce the issue using the reported test -- input and Ctrl+w sequence. Done means Ctrl+w removes only -- or -- while preserving test; add or run the relevant regression coverage if the project provides it.

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Environment data
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -ViMode Insert -Key Ctrl+w -Function BackwardKillWord
Steps to reproduce
  1. type test --
  2. press ctrl-w
  3. test -- are both deleted
Expected behavior

Only delete the -- or -- but keep test which is before <space>

Actual behavior

ctrl-w will delete the both two word test and --

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