bash / word seperators

[Brian D. McGrew]

THANK YOU!!!

In 'ye olden days, we modified readline/readline_complete.c in the bash
source code!

:b!

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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tony Nelson
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 11:45 AM
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Subject: Re: bash / word seperators

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.
>
>Without building a new version of bash, how can I make the shell
>recognize '/' as a word separator???

You mean "readline", not "bash".  Changing bash's definition of a word
would have much more profound effects than you describe.  Don't mess
with
IFS.

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.
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