Re: backward-dir/forward-dir

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

David Kulp wrote:
> Is there a key binding that allows me to move forward or back to the  
> next slash in a file path?
> 
> In emacs shell mode, M-b and M-f will move the cursor to the next  
> level of a /long/path/to/file.
> In zsh, M-b and M-f jump over the entire path.  But I usually want to  
> make a small edit in an existing path.
> 
> Strangely, I have noticed that ":" also serves as a word delimiter,  
> so M-b or M-f will stop on the colon for host:/path.  So that  
> suggests to me that there's a set of word delimiters defined somewhere?

Yes, it's in the parameter WORDCHARS (described in the zshparam manual and
referred to under forward-word but nowhere else in the zshzle manual).
Remove "/" to get the behaviour you want.

WORDCHARS=${WORDCHARS/\/}

If you'd like a more configurable way of doing this (having different
functions that either do or don't use / as a character in a word) see
the entry for the set of functions forward-word-match etc. in the
zshcontrib manual page.

(A while ago we were thinking about some contextual way of doing this so
that it would make /'s delimiters in file names, but nothing much came
of it.)

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