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Re: kill-word & friends in ZLE
- X-seq: zsh-workers 1089
- From: "Barton E. Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <kazda@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (Mike Kazda), hniksic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: kill-word & friends in ZLE
- Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:09:44 -0700
- Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: Hrvoje.Niksic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Hrvoje Niksic) "Re: kill-word & friends in ZLE" (May 16, 2:00pm)
- In-reply-to: <kazda@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (Mike Kazda) "Re: kill-word & friends in ZLE" (May 16, 10:56am)
- References: <199605161200.OAA23447@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <199605152302.BAA13777@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <11210.199605152318@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <9605161456.AA34688@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Reply-to: schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On May 16, 2:00pm, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
} Subject: Re: kill-word & friends in ZLE
}
} In your mail, you said:
} [...]
} > Another satisifactory option would be something like "yank-word", so I
} > could yank back the most-recently-killed word, rather the whole line,
}
} Why don't you use C-y? This works for me:
} fly% ls foo bar[Esc-Backspace][C-y]
} erases and returns bar on the line.
Yes, but:
% ls foo bar[esc-backspace][esc-backspace][c-y]
erases and then returns "foo bar". What I want to do is erase "foo bar"
and then return only "foo". "Undo" is the closest approximation.
} Furthermore, all the kills enter the
} kill-ring and are reaccessible.
Doesn't help, because "foo" isn't in the kill ring all by itself, it's
in the same kill-ring entry with "bar".
On May 16, 10:56am, (Mike Kazda) wrote:
} Subject: Re: kill-word & friends in ZLE
}
} I tried setting the following in zsh (beta17) and it had no effect:
}
} WORDCHARS='*?_-.[]~=/&;!#$%^(){}<>'
}
} Do you have any hints?
WORDCHARS has always bugged me because it does NOT specify characters that
are word *breaks*, it specifies characters *in addition to alphabetics and
numerals* that are *included* in words.
So you need to *remove* characters from WORDCHARS to get them to be taken
as word breaks. That's why this thread started with a patch to default
WORDCHARS to nothing at all.
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Bart Schaefer Vice President, Technology, Z-Code Software
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