changing the definition of a "word"

changing the definition of a "word"

[Timothy J. Luoma]

is there someway I can tell zsh to take a / as being an indication  
of when a "word" begins/ends?

I would like to be able to use ESC-b and ESC-f to go down long  
paths quickly, ie

cd /to/some/really/long/path/on/my/system

and be able to esc-b and esc-f back and forth along this line,  
stopping at the "/" rather than just the white spaces (although I'd  
want to keep those as "word markers" as well).

Thanks!
TjL
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Re: changing the definition of a "word"

[Zefram]

>is there someway I can tell zsh to take a / as being an indication  
>of when a "word" begins/ends?

The normal vi mode word movement commands (vi-forward-word and
vi-backward-word) have this behaviour.  You could bind them to whatever
keys you want.  There's another set of word algorithms available as
vi-{for,back}ward-blank-word, but those aren't what you want in this
case.

-zefram

Re: changing the definition of a "word"

[Barton E. Schaefer]

On Sep 6,  4:49pm, Zefram wrote:
} Subject: Re: changing the definition of a "word"
}
} >is there someway I can tell zsh to take a / as being an indication  
} >of when a "word" begins/ends?
} 
} The normal vi mode word movement commands (vi-forward-word and
} vi-backward-word) have this behaviour.  You could bind them to whatever
} keys you want.

Has everyone forgotten the WORDCHARS variable?

# Leave =/&; out of WORDCHARS so ^W acts more nicely -- still not ideal
WORDCHARS='*?_-.[]~\!#$%^(){}<>'


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