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In zsh how do you bind Ctrl+backspace to delete the previous word?

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I'm trying to bind the command usualy binded to ^W with ctrl+backspace.

I have two problem here, one for each parameter of the bindkey command:

  • what is string to mean the ctrl+backspace
  • what is the command to delete the previous word
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psychoslave Avatar asked Jan 21 '14 08:01

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1 Answers

One may use:

bindkey '^H' backward-kill-word

Note that on old versions of GNOME terminal, it won't work, see this related question and this bug report. As indicated bellow, this seems fixed in current version.

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psychoslave Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 01:09

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