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From: Rik <gitaarik@posteo.net>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Make `Ctrl + W` and `Ctrl + Shift + H` in zsh behave the same as in bash
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 14:29:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <63c88bc3-ab0b-dd26-4dcd-4c834b5bfaad@posteo.net> (raw)

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Hi everyone,

I've recently started using zsh and I like it. However, coming from 
bash, some little things I miss.


*The problem:*

In bash behavior is like this:

  * Ctrl + W deletes the word behind the cursor up to the next space
  * Ctrl + Shift + H deletes the word behind the cursor up to the next
    seperation charcater like ., ,, -, / etc.

In zsh both Ctrl + W an Ctrl + Shift + H behave like the latter one in 
bash. I would like the same behavior as in bash.



*This is what I've tried:*

    SPACE_WORDCHARS='~!#$%^&*(){}[]<>?.+;-_/\|=@`'
    backward-delete-word() WORDCHARS=$SPACE_WORDCHARS zle .$WIDGET
    zle -N backward-delete-word
    bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word

This works, however, it breaks the functionality that deleting a word 
puts the word on the paste buffer, so I can't then paste this word with 
Ctrl + Y. This is quite important functionality for me. To be honest I'm 
not completely sure how this zle function works and what .$WIDGET does. 
Would anyone know a way how I can make this work while retaining the 
cut/paste behavior?


Many thanks,
Rik


             reply	other threads:[~2020-03-21 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-21 19:29 Rik [this message]
2020-03-21 20:06 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-03-21 20:12   ` Rik

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