BackEscapeWord / Ctrl+W behaves incorrectly at the beginning of a line

[timothyg-stripe]

When I type Ctrl+W at the first word, the entire line is deleted rather than just the first word

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[wader]

Hi, there is an a bit more active fork of readline at https://github.com/ergochat/readline that includes this fix a lot more ergochat/readline#11 maybe interesting