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Re: ctrl w behaviour: jump in front of separating characters?

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From: "Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Zsh Users" <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "chiasa.men" <chiasa.men@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ctrl w behaviour: jump in front of separating characters?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 18:43:22 +0000
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Bart Schaefer wrote on Tue, 24 Aug 2021 22:32 +00:00:
> Writing your own widget:
> 
> backward-kill-word-space() {
>   backward-kill-word-match

This should have read «zle backward-kill-word-match».

>   while [[ $LBUFFER = *' ' ]] &&
>     zle backward-delete-char

Curious: Any particular reason to prefer this over «LBUFFER=${LBUFFER% }»?

>   do :; done
> }
> zle -N backward-kill-word backward-kill-word-space
> 
> 

Cheers,

Daniel

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