Emulating vim's Ctrl-W behavior

Emulating vim's Ctrl-W behavior

[Jack O'Connor]

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Zsh likes to nuke my pipes when I delete backwards. For example, if I have
the line...

echo a | grep

...and I press Ctrl-W twice, then what I'd like to have (and what vim and
bash give me) is...

echo a

But zsh doesn't seem to count the pipe as a word, and the second Ctrl-W
plows through it and deletes the "a". Is there any way to configure zsh to
get vim's behavior? And related, is there a way to delete backwards to the
next slash in a path, as Ctrl-W does in vim, rather than deleting the whole
path? Thanks very much.

-- Jack O'Connor

Re: Emulating vim's Ctrl-W behavior

[Matt Garriott]

Hi Jack,

If you use zsh's vi edit mode (instead of emacs mode) you will get this
behavior by default.

You can set your shell to use vi mode with this command.
  bindkey -v

This will set your shell's line editing mode to vi-style.

You can get more info with:
  man zshzle

-Matt

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 02:20:57PM -0700, Jack O'Connor wrote:
> Zsh likes to nuke my pipes when I delete backwards. For example, if I have
> the line...
> 
> echo a | grep
> 
> ...and I press Ctrl-W twice, then what I'd like to have (and what vim and
> bash give me) is...
> 
> echo a
> 
> But zsh doesn't seem to count the pipe as a word, and the second Ctrl-W
> plows through it and deletes the "a". Is there any way to configure zsh to
> get vim's behavior? And related, is there a way to delete backwards to the
> next slash in a path, as Ctrl-W does in vim, rather than deleting the whole
> path? Thanks very much.
> 
> -- Jack O'Connor

Re: Emulating vim's Ctrl-W behavior

[Jack O'Connor]

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Awesome, and thanks for the quick response! I was using a mix of bindings
from the emacs and vi modes, and I'd ended up with the emacs version of
Ctrl-W without realizing they were different. I ended up using "bindkey
'^W' vi-backward-kill-word".

-- Jack


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Matt Garriott <matt.garriott@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Jack,
>
> If you use zsh's vi edit mode (instead of emacs mode) you will get this
> behavior by default.
>
> You can set your shell to use vi mode with this command.
>   bindkey -v
>
> This will set your shell's line editing mode to vi-style.
>
> You can get more info with:
>   man zshzle
>
> -Matt
>
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 02:20:57PM -0700, Jack O'Connor wrote:
> > Zsh likes to nuke my pipes when I delete backwards. For example, if I
> have
> > the line...
> >
> > echo a | grep
> >
> > ...and I press Ctrl-W twice, then what I'd like to have (and what vim and
> > bash give me) is...
> >
> > echo a
> >
> > But zsh doesn't seem to count the pipe as a word, and the second Ctrl-W
> > plows through it and deletes the "a". Is there any way to configure zsh
> to
> > get vim's behavior? And related, is there a way to delete backwards to
> the
> > next slash in a path, as Ctrl-W does in vim, rather than deleting the
> whole
> > path? Thanks very much.
> >
> > -- Jack O'Connor
>

Re: Emulating vim's Ctrl-W behavior

[Bart Schaefer]

On Oct 4,  4:19pm, Jack O'Connor wrote:
} 
} Awesome, and thanks for the quick response! I was using a mix of bindings
} from the emacs and vi modes, and I'd ended up with the emacs version of
} Ctrl-W without realizing they were different.

If you want more control over the emacs backward-kill-word, have a look
at the WORDCHARS variable.  (To which you'd want to add "|", in the
example you gave, and remove "/".)

Re: Emulating vim's Ctrl-W behavior

[Valodim Skywalker]

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If you want full control, look up select-word-style in man zshcontrib.

 - V


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