Re: Emulating vim's Ctrl-W behavior

[Matt Garriott <matt.garriott@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jack,

If you use zsh's vi edit mode (instead of emacs mode) you will get this
behavior by default.

You can set your shell to use vi mode with this command.
  bindkey -v

This will set your shell's line editing mode to vi-style.

You can get more info with:
  man zshzle

-Matt

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 02:20:57PM -0700, Jack O'Connor wrote:
> Zsh likes to nuke my pipes when I delete backwards. For example, if I have
> the line...
> 
> echo a | grep
> 
> ...and I press Ctrl-W twice, then what I'd like to have (and what vim and
> bash give me) is...
> 
> echo a
> 
> But zsh doesn't seem to count the pipe as a word, and the second Ctrl-W
> plows through it and deletes the "a". Is there any way to configure zsh to
> get vim's behavior? And related, is there a way to delete backwards to the
> next slash in a path, as Ctrl-W does in vim, rather than deleting the whole
> path? Thanks very much.
> 
> -- Jack O'Connor