Re: emulate bash key bindings

[Andrey Butirsky <butirsky@gmail.com>]

On 08.01.2020 13:00, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 21:38 +0300, Andrey Butirsky wrote:
>> Hello,
>>   
>> after 25 years of bash, I'm doing my first steps with Zsh.
>>   
>> I'm trying to reproduce main bash key bindings in Zsh, so I started with:
>>   
>> autoload -U select-word-style
>> select-word-style bash
>>   
>> But sill, I need to have different word boundaries for some bindings,
>> e.g Ctrl+W should kill space-delimeted word.
>>   
>> What is the best way to achieve that? Can I avoid creating custom widgets?
> The most configurable way is to use the special widget, the same one
> that you've now got bind to the usual backward-kill-word functions, but
> under a different name.  Then you can set a special style for the
> behaviour.  Then you have all the same possibilities as the widget
> functions at your fingertips, without having to redefine any functions.
>
>
> # Create widget backward-kill-space-word, using the generic
> # backward-kill-word widget function.
> zle -N backward-kill-space-word backward-kill-word-match
> # Tell it to use "space" style for words.
> zstyle ':zle:backward-kill-space-word:*' word-style space
> # Bind it.
> bindkey '^W' backward-kill-space-word
>
>
> The zshcontrib manual lists the various styles.
>
> pws
>
Thanks to all for answering!

Actually, the solution with styles is what I came to myself, just used 
aliases instead of creating new widgets (zle -A forward-word 
space-forward-word).
But binding with dot-prefixed widget names seem the most compact 
solution for me: "bindkey '^w' .backward-kill-word", thanks!

Still, both solutions do not seem very obvious, at least for new user.
So maybe we should emphasize it in the documentation?
I think a few extra examples in section introducing 'select-word-style' 
command would be enough.