Re: [tlug] Bashing away at Unix

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 15/03/2008, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:

> There's a zsh option (man zshoptions, I think) called something like
>  WORD_DELIMITER_CHARACTERS.  You need to put '/' in it.  Why the
>  default for a shell is what it is in zsh, I'm not sure.  (NB, it may
>  be WORD_CHARACTERS and you have to take '/' out.)

I guess that would make C-w and M-DEL work the same, which is not what
I want. I use both behaviours, depending on what I want to do.

>  In Emacsen there is a distinction between word characters and symbol
>  characters.

Yeah, and this is really useful. I guess GNU readline does this by
default due to its Emacs ancestry.

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Cheers,
Josh