I have a question about zsh's bindkey.

I have a question about zsh's bindkey.

[Akira Funahashi / 舟橋啓]

I have a question about zsh's bindkey.
When using tcsh(tcsh-6.05), I wrote my bindkeys like this.

(.tcshrc)  bindkey ^W backward-delete-word

And when I press ^W like this situation, it works as follows.

(tcsh)% ls /usr/local/bin/^W 
	|
	v
(tcsh)% ls /usr/local/

I think it is very useful and I want to use this in zsh.
But in zsh(I'm using zsh-2.6-beta8),even if I wrote in .zshrc like this,

(.zshrc)  bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word

it doesn't work like tcsh, only works like this.

(zsh)% ls /usr/local/bin/^W 
	|
	v
(zsh)% ls 

Could someone help me????
-------
Akira Funahashi (funa@aa.cs.keio.ac.jp)
Amano laboratory, Dept. of computer science
Keio University, JAPAN

Re: I have a question about zsh's bindkey.

[Timothy J. Luoma]

Ah I had the same problem.

Add this to one of your zsh dotfiles (.zshrc or .zshenv I guess):

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

I'm not sure how this works, because the "/" isn't even listed in the 
WORDCHAR, but it does work.

It doesn't seem to stop at the characters as I think it should (it 
doesn't stop at a "." in the middle of a word) but it will stop at the 
"/" as you described (see below)

TjL
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> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 01:57:42 +0900
> To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
> Subject: I have a question about zsh's bindkey.
> 
> I have a question about zsh's bindkey.
> When using tcsh(tcsh-6.05), I wrote my bindkeys like this.
> 
> (.tcshrc)  bindkey ^W backward-delete-word
> 
> And when I press ^W like this situation, it works as follows.
> 
> (tcsh)% ls /usr/local/bin/^W 
> 	|
> 	v
> (tcsh)% ls /usr/local/
> 
> I think it is very useful and I want to use this in zsh.
> But in zsh(I'm using zsh-2.6-beta8),even if I wrote in .zshrc like this,
> 
> (.zshrc)  bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word
> 
> it doesn't work like tcsh, only works like this.
> 
> (zsh)% ls /usr/local/bin/^W 
> 	|
> 	v
> (zsh)% ls 
> 
> Could someone help me????
> -------
> Akira Funahashi (funa@aa.cs.keio.ac.jp)
> Amano laboratory, Dept. of computer science
> Keio University, JAPAN
> 

Re: I have a question about zsh's bindkey.

[Bart Schaefer]

On Sep 17,  1:45pm, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
} Subject: Re: I have a question about zsh's bindkey.
}
} Add this to one of your zsh dotfiles (.zshrc or .zshenv I guess):
} 
} # Leave =/&; out of WORDCHARS so ^W acts more nicely 
} # -- still not ideal
} WORDCHARS='*?_-.[]~\!#$%^(){}<>|`@#$%^*()+:?'
} 
} I'm not sure how this works, because the "/" isn't even listed in the 
} WORDCHAR, but it does work.

WORDCHARS is funny.

It means "the characters IN ADDITION to [A-Z][a-z][0-9] that should be
treated as PART OF a word".  So to get word-motions to stop at a new
character, you REMOVE that character from WORDCHARS.

} It doesn't seem to stop at the characters as I think it should (it 
} doesn't stop at a "." in the middle of a word) but it will stop at the 
} "/" as you described

To stop at ".", change the definition to leave "." out:

WORDCHARS='*?_-.[]~\!#$%^(){}<>|`@#$%^*()+:?'

(I'm not sure why some characters are in there twice ... seems to me it
should work to just use

WORDCHARS='*?_-.[]~\!#$%^(){}<>|`@+:'

with or without ".".  Yes, I realize I probably sent the original value
to this list with repeated characters a while back.)

-- 
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