feat: add sane delete-backwards

SwarselSystems.org

@@ -8751,11 +8751,12 @@ zsh is the most convenient shell for me and it happens to be super neat to confi
 Here we set some aliases (some of them should be shellApplications instead) as well as some zsh plugins like =fzf-tab=.
 
 #+begin_src nix :tangle profiles/common/home/zsh.nix
-    { config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
+{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
-    {
+{
   programs.zsh = {
     enable = true;
-        shellAliases = lib.recursiveUpdate {
+    shellAliases = lib.recursiveUpdate
+      {
         hg = "history | grep";
         hmswitch = "cd ~/.dotfiles; home-manager --flake .#$(whoami)@$(hostname) switch; cd -;";
         nswitch = "cd ~/.dotfiles; sudo nixos-rebuild --flake .#$(hostname) switch; cd -;";
@@ -8806,6 +8807,38 @@ Here we set some aliases (some of them should be shellApplications instead) as w
       bindkey "^[[1;5D" backward-word
       bindkey "^[[1;5C" forward-word
 
+      my-backward-delete-word() {
+          # Copy the global WORDCHARS variable to a local variable. That way any
+          # modifications are scoped to this function only
+          local WORDCHARS=$WORDCHARS
+          # Use bash string manipulation to remove `:` so our delete will stop at it
+          WORDCHARS="''${WORDCHARS//:}"
+          # Use bash string manipulation to remove `/` so our delete will stop at it
+          WORDCHARS="''${WORDCHARS//\/}"
+          # Use bash string manipulation to remove `.` so our delete will stop at it
+          WORDCHARS="''${WORDCHARS//.}"
+          # zle <widget-name> will run an existing widget.
+          zle backward-delete-word
+      }
+      zle -N my-backward-delete-word
+      bindkey '^H' my-backward-delete-word
+
+      # This will be our `ctrl+alt+w` command
+      my-backward-delete-whole-word() {
+          # Copy the global WORDCHARS variable to a local variable. That way any
+          # modifications are scoped to this function only
+          local WORDCHARS=$WORDCHARS
+          # Use bash string manipulation to add `:` to WORDCHARS if it's not present
+          # already.
+          [[ ! $WORDCHARS == *":"* ]] && WORDCHARS="$WORDCHARS"":"
+          # zle <widget-name> will run that widget.
+          zle backward-delete-word
+      }
+      # `zle -N` will create a new widget that we can use on the command line
+      zle -N my-backward-delete-whole-word
+      # bind this new widget to `ctrl+alt+w`
+      bindkey '^W' my-backward-delete-whole-word
+
       vterm_printf() {
                       if [ -n "$TMUX" ] && ([ "''${TERM%%-*}" = "tmux" ] || [ "''${TERM%%-*}" = "screen" ]); then
                         # Tell tmux to pass the escape sequences through
@@ -8831,11 +8864,11 @@ Here we set some aliases (some of them should be shellApplications instead) as w
               shift
           done
           vterm_printf "51;E$vterm_elisp"
-}
+      }
 
     '';
   };
-    }
+}
 #+end_src
 
 **** zellij

profiles/common/home/zsh.nix

@@ -54,6 +54,38 @@
       bindkey "^[[1;5D" backward-word
       bindkey "^[[1;5C" forward-word
 
+      my-backward-delete-word() {
+          # Copy the global WORDCHARS variable to a local variable. That way any
+          # modifications are scoped to this function only
+          local WORDCHARS=$WORDCHARS
+          # Use bash string manipulation to remove `:` so our delete will stop at it
+          WORDCHARS="''${WORDCHARS//:}"
+          # Use bash string manipulation to remove `/` so our delete will stop at it
+          WORDCHARS="''${WORDCHARS//\/}"
+          # Use bash string manipulation to remove `.` so our delete will stop at it
+          WORDCHARS="''${WORDCHARS//.}"
+          # zle <widget-name> will run an existing widget.
+          zle backward-delete-word
+      }
+      zle -N my-backward-delete-word
+      bindkey '^H' my-backward-delete-word
+
+      # This will be our `ctrl+alt+w` command
+      my-backward-delete-whole-word() {
+          # Copy the global WORDCHARS variable to a local variable. That way any
+          # modifications are scoped to this function only
+          local WORDCHARS=$WORDCHARS
+          # Use bash string manipulation to add `:` to WORDCHARS if it's not present
+          # already.
+          [[ ! $WORDCHARS == *":"* ]] && WORDCHARS="$WORDCHARS"":"
+          # zle <widget-name> will run that widget.
+          zle backward-delete-word
+      }
+      # `zle -N` will create a new widget that we can use on the command line
+      zle -N my-backward-delete-whole-word
+      # bind this new widget to `ctrl+alt+w`
+      bindkey '^W' my-backward-delete-whole-word
+
       vterm_printf() {
                       if [ -n "$TMUX" ] && ([ "''${TERM%%-*}" = "tmux" ] || [ "''${TERM%%-*}" = "screen" ]); then
                         # Tell tmux to pass the escape sequences through