On 8/30/06, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 > On 8/27/06, Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 05:36:21PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
[rearranged]

> Move left/right until we encounter a non-whitespace character.
> Move left/right until we encounter a non-alphanumeric character.
> If the character we stopped on is non-whitespace, move along one more 
> character.
>
> I've played around with it and it seems to do what I want most of the
> time. The actual rule may be a bit complicated, but the behaviour
> seems to be what you would expect.
[...]

And symmetrically with deleting forward one word (Alt-D)?

This rule sounds complicated.  I'm concerned that a user who tries to
"discover" word deletion in Fish (without reading documentation) would
not get the rule and would avoid deleting whole words.


> Actually, I tried my version, and it didn't work. There where troubles
> with tokens consisting completely of separateors. So the new rule for
> move_word and kill_word is:

Sorry, what were the troubles -- that you had to press Ctrl+W many
times to delete many consecuitve separators?  With the new rule you
would still have to press Ctrl+W many times, only one time less than
with the simpler rule.  What is the rationale for making the first
encountered separator more special than other separators?


[rearranged]
> > the main problem is the need to be able to remove a whole argument
> > conveniently. preferably without needing a seperate shortcut

Does it have to be one keycombo press?



> > > My interpretatin of your suggestion is that there should be two levels
> > > of boundaries, one with whitespace and one with other boundary
> > > characters, and that they be treated differently.
[...]

How about deleting till a boundary between any two of the three
character sets whitespace, alphanumeric and

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