10 Jul
2001
10 Jul
'01
1:17 p.m.
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Manish Jethani wrote:
How do I change the definition of a word boundary in Bash?
I would think that setting IFS should work. The default is <space><tab><newline>. It doesn't.
Then I figured that this isn't really the shell's job, but the job of the readline library, so I checked that.
According to that section, word boundaries are composed of alphanumeric characters (letters and digits), but no mention of periods.
Maybe if you fool around a bit with the readline docs, you'll find something.
Philip
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