From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
To: Nathan Phillip Brink <ohnobinki@ohnopublishing.net>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: emacs-forward-word not emacs-like
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 23:35:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54A17F86-83A8-4AF5-B684-F78F0D049E97@larryv.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201021032801.GA1808@gibby.ohnopub.net>
> On Oct 20, 2020, at 11:28 PM, Nathan Phillip Brink <ohnobinki@ohnopublishing.net> wrote:
>
> If my cursor is positioned at ‘a’ and I press M-f, bash and Emacs
> will move the cursor to point to the first dash ‘-’ (dash) (i.e., to
> immediately after the ‘a’). zsh’s emacs-forward-word will instead
> position the cursor immediately after ‘c’. M-b mapped to
> emacs-backward-word and M-d mapped to kill-word suffer from the same
> issue where dashes and other punctuation(?) are incorrectly considered
> to be word characters.
>
> Since I am so used to the behavior of Emacs and bash, this divergent
> behavior of zsh for these keys is really disruptive.
>
> Is there a way to get Emacs/bash-style cursor movement for these
> bindings?
Take a look at the WORDCHARS shell variable and try removing any
characters that don't strike your fancy.
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-21 3:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-21 3:28 Nathan Phillip Brink
2020-10-21 3:35 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2020-10-21 20:29 ` Bart Schaefer
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