Definition of a word

[Ollivier Robert <roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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