From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>, 478019@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#478019: zsh: Should handle non-breaking space as word separator
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:05:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080426150548.GB6165@scru.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080426110003.GA16650@implementation>
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:00:03PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On a french keyboard, '|' is typed by using alt-gr, and the non-breaking
> space is often typed by using alt-gr space. That often leads to this:
>
> € echo a | grep a
> zsh: command not found: grep
>
> Because zsh looks for a " grep" command, with leading non-breaking space
> because my thumb remained a bit too long on the alt-gr key.
>
> This doesn't happen with bash, because bash treats non-breaking space as
> a word separator. Could zsh do the same? (currently, I have defined
> alias grep=grep
> alias vi=vi
> ...)
Having locale-based (and multibyte) word separators sounds like a nightmare
to me, but maybe someone has some ideas.
next parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-26 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20080426110003.GA16650@implementation>
2008-04-26 15:05 ` Clint Adams [this message]
2008-04-26 15:25 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-04-26 18:41 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-26 19:09 ` Stephane Chazelas
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