diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 67ea28041..b17401d61 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
      more often and exit with a non zero code if asked to find a hostname
      in a known_hosts file and it wasn't there;
      originally from reyk@,  ok djm
+   - djm@cvs.openbsd.org 2013/08/31 00:13:54
+     [sftp.c]
+     make ^w match ksh behaviour (delete previous word instead of entire line)
 
 20130828
  - (djm) [openbsd-compat/bsd-snprintf.c] teach our local snprintf code the
diff --git a/sftp.c b/sftp.c
index e21144064..f7b488ae5 100644
--- a/sftp.c
+++ b/sftp.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: sftp.c,v 1.154 2013/08/09 03:56:42 djm Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: sftp.c,v 1.155 2013/08/31 00:13:54 djm Exp $ */
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Damien Miller <djm@openbsd.org>
  *
@@ -2013,6 +2013,8 @@ interactive_loop(struct sftp_conn *conn, char *file1, char *file2)
 		el_set(el, EL_BIND, "\\e[5C", "em-next-word", NULL);
 		el_set(el, EL_BIND, "\\e[1;5D", "ed-prev-word", NULL);
 		el_set(el, EL_BIND, "\\e\\e[D", "ed-prev-word", NULL);
+		/* make ^w match ksh behaviour */
+		el_set(el, EL_BIND, "^w", "ed-delete-prev-word", NULL);
 	}
 #endif /* USE_LIBEDIT */