From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: delete-word does not delete the entire word...
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:51:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031011195149.GA22610@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1031011173654.ZM13301@candle.brasslantern.com>
Hi Bart :)
* Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> dixit:
> } where '_' is the cursor position, the entire word jfinvnck is not
> } deleted, just the portion between the cursor and the end of the word.
> } That's not what I expect
> Out of curiosity, WHY is that not what you expect?
Because when I want to delete a word, I mean the entire word, not
just a portion from the cursor O:) Back when I used bash, I didn't
mess with words, really. In fact I wasn't doing with zsh, neither,
but recently I bind delete-word and delete-backward-word for speed. I
don't know what happens in other shells :??? Anyway, with zsh I can
modify this behaviour :)
> It's pretty standard behavior of unix-derived text editors to treat
> the cursor position as dividing the buffer into two parts, and then
> acting on only one of those parts at a time.
Maybe, I don't really know. I don't feel like telling what I
think about vi or emacs, but when documentation say 'word' I assume
'entire word', not 'from cursor position to...' ;)) You're right: my
usual editor, joe, does just the same, and I suppose all editors do
the same (believe it or not, I don't use delete word commands in joe
at all...). That's why I was asking. Obviously, it's my fault O:)
I'll write a wrapper around word deletion commands so they act on the
entire word ;)
Thanks for pointing that, I thought that 'joe' was acting on
complete words, but it is not true!
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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Linux Registered User 88736
http://www.pleyades.net & http://raul.pleyades.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-11 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-11 12:10 DervishD
2003-10-11 17:36 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-10-11 19:51 ` DervishD [this message]
2003-10-11 21:00 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-10-12 8:57 ` DervishD
2003-10-12 16:32 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-10-12 17:05 ` DervishD
2003-10-12 18:31 ` Peter Stephenson
2003-10-12 20:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-10-13 10:04 ` Peter Stephenson
2003-10-13 9:09 ` DervishD
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