On 09May2006 22:22, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | >| 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? Yep: [~]zoob*> echo $COMP_WORDBREAKS "'@><=;|&(:/ Control left-arrow seems to do nothing at all for me. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein
