On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 03:21:51AM EDT, Aleksandar Dimitrov wrote: [..]
One of my reasons for switching to zsh was that when I had punched in a long path and made a mistake in the last segment of it, I might hit ^W, but then bash deletes the entire path with no possibility of undo! zsh only deletes up to the '/', which I prefer greatly.
I don't know how zsh handles it but it's not bash/readline that deletes the entire path - or IOW, uses space only as the word separator.. | $ stty -a | | intr = ^C; (...) werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; ... Here, in bash/readline, I see <CTRL-ALT-h> mapped to backward-kill-word, which also uses the slash as a word separator. I assume it's the default binding. For more information: | $ bind -p | less | $ help bind | $ man readline Also,, note that you can use <CTRL-Y> to yank back something you deleted by accident via <CTRL-W>. CJ -- WHAT YOU SAY??