Definition of a word

Definition of a word

[Ollivier Robert]

Is there a way to refine what zsh think of as a "word" ? It seems that a
word is "anything other than whitespace" which gets really annoying when
one use <ESC><BS> to delete part of a path because the whole path is
destroyed :-(

<ESC><BS> is "backward-delete-word" in tcsh and "backward-kill-word" in zsh
BUT their notion of "word" is different.

Example:                                                                      

tcsh> ls -l /usr/local/bin                                                  
<ESC><BS>
tcsh> ls -l /usr/local/                                                       
<ESC><BS>
tcsh> ls -l /usr/                                                             

while in zsh, I get this... ("/" is not a word delimiter).

zsh> ls -l /usr/local/bin                                                     
<ESC><BS>
zsh> ls -l                                                                   

Last time I checked, bash 2.x was behaving like tcsh.
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Re: Definition of a word

[Phil Pennock]

Typing away merrily, Ollivier Robert produced the immortal words:
> Is there a way to refine what zsh think of as a "word" ? It seems that a
> word is "anything other than whitespace" which gets really annoying when
> one use <ESC><BS> to delete part of a path because the whole path is
> destroyed :-(

Change the WORDCHARS variable, documented in zshparam(1).
 WORDCHARS <S>
   A list of non-alphanumeric characters considered part of a word by
   the line editor.

Default is:
WORDCHARS='*?_-.[]~=/&;!#$%^(){}<>'

Change this in your .zshrc to the equivalent, without the '/' in there.

Perhaps the 'emulate' command should also change WORDCHARS accordingly?
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Re: Definition of a word

[Jan Kroken]

Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> writes:

> Is there a way to refine what zsh think of as a "word" ?

Variable index:

`WORDCHARS'
	A list of non-alphanumeric characters considered part of a word by
	the line editor.

info is your friend :)
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Re: Definition of a word

[Thomas Köhler]

Hello,

Jan Kroken <jankr@ifi.uio.no> wrote:

> Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> writes:
> 
> > Is there a way to refine what zsh think of as a "word" ?
> 
> Variable index:
> 
> `WORDCHARS'
> 	A list of non-alphanumeric characters considered part of a word by
> 	the line editor.
> 
> info is your friend :)

*uhm*
picard ~> bindkey -v
picard ~> cd /usr/local/bin_
(hit ^W)
picard ~> cd /usr/local/_
(hit ^W)
picard ~> cd /usr/local_
(hit ^W)
picard ~> cd /usr/_

Why isn't WORDCHARS honored when in vi-like editing mode?

CU,
Thomas [still using zsh-3.1.4]

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Re: Definition of a word

[Peter Stephenson]

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_K=F6hler?= wrote:
> picard ~> bindkey -v
> picard ~> cd /usr/local/bin_
> (hit ^W)
> picard ~> cd /usr/local/_
> (hit ^W)
> picard ~> cd /usr/local_
> 
> Why isn't WORDCHARS honored when in vi-like editing mode?

The binding is vi-backward-kill-word, which uses vi-like word
definitions.  You can bind it emacs mode to get the same effect, but
it's not quite the same because of the way it deletes the delimiter as
a separate word.  Or, you can bind backward-kill-word in vi mode for
the opposite.

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