Sensible $WORDCHARS for Most Developers
Sensible $WORDCHARS for Most Developers
Have you ever hit alt + backspace while in a zsh session, intending to delete just the last part of a path, or a word, or an identifier, but ended up deleting far more than that? This is probably because you are using the default value for $WORDCHARS. The default value for $WORDCHARS is *?_-.[]~=/&a...
Short, simple, informative, and helpful. 10/10
I've been wanting to change this setting for SO LONG I just didn't know what it was called. Very happy to accidentally run into this
You can delete a word in a terminal? Is this zsh specific or is there a bash equivalent?
Terminal user for 20 years, never heard of this.
Alt+Backspace works in bash too, and should work in any other command-line program that reads input using readline.