At 12:12 PM +1000 5/10/06, Cameron Simpson wrote: >On 08May2006 14:45, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >| At 8:50 AM -0700 5/8/06, Brian D. McGrew wrote: >| >Back in 'ye olden days, we used to have a customized version of bash >| >that recognized '/' as a word separator; which was very nice when >| >editing command lines, a CTRL-W would not erase your whole typed path, >| >just back to the slash. >[...] >| Man bash shows "COMP_WORDBREAKS" as the relevent variable to set. (Don't >| unset it.) See "man bash", and search for "readline". So: >| >| COMP_WORDBREAKS=$COMP_WORDBREAKS/ >| >| does it. To have it every time, put that line in ~/.bashrc. > >Seems to have no effect for me. I'm testing with bash-3.0 on Fedora Core >4. Should I expect this to affect ^W? One reason I prefer zsh is that >it will stop ^W at a slash, which I find very useful. Don't know. It affects Ctrl-Left Arrow here. I don't use Ctrl-W. Have you printed COMP_WORDBREAKS to make sure it's set properly? ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
