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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Nathan Phillip Brink <ohnobinki@ohnopublishing.net>
Cc: "zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: emacs-forward-word not emacs-like
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:29:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7auCZq2SjfxYisP04C4nPSnHhH=fSegx44oJAQEN5FxkA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201021032801.GA1808@gibby.ohnopub.net>

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 8:28 PM Nathan Phillip Brink
<ohnobinki@ohnopublishing.net> wrote:
>
> I was trying to write input to a line and move my cursor about using
> M-f and M-b and deleting chunks at a time with M-d. [...]
>
> a-b-c d-e-f
>
> 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’.

In addition to Lawrence's reference to WORDCHARS, please note that Zsh
generally emulates Gosling Emacs, whereas Bash is patterned more after
GNU Emacs.  (I await Chet Ramey's correction of any inaccuracy in the
latter assertion.)  The zsh bindings are also somewhat entangled with
the "stty" definitions of word motion, so that people moving to zsh
from the default terminal driver will not be surprised (although
that's a disappearing minority nowadays).


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-21 20:29 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
2020-10-21 20:29 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]

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