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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
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To: Andy Spiegl <zsh.Andy@spiegl.de>
Subject: Re: question about keybinding 
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 23:52:42 +0100
Message-ID: <1838.1069455162@athlon>

Andy Spiegl wrote:
> 
> I'm basically using the emacs-keybinding and have my wordchars set to:
>  WORDCHARS='*?_-.[]~=/&;!%^(){}<>+'
> 
> But sometimes I'd like to behave emacs-(back|fore)ward-word differently
> so that it doesn't jump over dots.  Let's say when I additionally press
> SHIFT together with meta-b.  I've been pondering but I can't think
> of a simple way to set it up so that the WORDCHARS setting changes
> depending on which key I press.

Write a widget and change WORDCHARS within it. For example, I use:

  tcsh-backward-word() {
    local WORDCHARS="${WORDCHARS:s@/@}"
    zle backward-word
  }
  zle -N tcsh-backward-word

Oliver