Bash behaviour
I've just migrated from bash
to zsh
. In bash
, I had the following line in ~/.inputrc
.
"\e\C-?": unix-filename-rubout
Hence, Alt+Backspace would delete back to the previous slash, which was useful for editing paths.
Separately, bash
defaults to making Ctrl+w delete to the previous space, which is useful for deleting whole arguments (presuming they don't have spaces). Hence, there two slightly different actions performed with each key combination.
Zsh behaviour
In zsh
, both Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+w do the same thing. They both delete the previous word, but they are too liberal with what constitutes a word-break, deleting up to the previous -
or _
. Is there a way to make zsh
behave similarly to bash
, with two independent actions? If it's important, I have oh-my-zsh
installed.
Best Answer
Edit: The next google result after your question was this one with same solution : zsh: make ALT+BACKSPACE stop at non-alphanumeric characters
This answer was provided by
/nick FoH
from #zsh on freenode.This way you can use
ctrl+w
for deleting a Word (in vim lingo) andalt+bkspc
to delete a word