Re: backward kill

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:
> * Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> [Nov 15. 2001 16:22]:
> > > with the prompt at the end, and I press alt-backspace, the whole path is
> > > wiped out. I would like it to just remove backwards to the last (first
> > > from the end) slash. How could I accomplish this?
> > 
> > Use the bash-backward-kill-word widget, supplied with 4.0 and 4.1.  (The
> > other bash-* variants are only supplied with 4.1).
> 
> Cannot seem to get that working, and the manpage mentions nothing
> about it?

It's documented in zshcontrib(1), but only in 4.1.  I think I'll copy the
remainder of the bash-* stuff to the 4.0 branch.

The file tells you what to do.  Make sure the directory is in your autoload
path --- zsh should have been set up so that it is --- and autoload it like
any other function.

# This implements a bash-style backward-kill-word.
# To use,
#   zle -N bash-backward-kill-word
#   bindkey '...' bash-backward-kill-word
# or if you wish to replace existing backward-kill-word bindings,
#   zle -N backward-kill-word bash-backward-kill-word

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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