Re: [Help-bash] How to configure 'b' and 'e' vi mode to ignore '.'?

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/27/12 11:02 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> By default, 'b' and 'e' stop at '.' in vi mode. I think that there
> should be a way to configure 'b' and 'e' stop only at white space but
> not '.'. But I'm not able to find it in the document. Could anybody
> let me know how to set it? Thanks!

vi makes a distinction between a `word' (sequence of letters, digits, and
underscores delimited by something that's not) and a `bigword' (sequence of
non-blanks delimited by a blank).

`b' and `e' operate on words.  `B' and `E' operate on bigwords.  If you
don't want to stop at a vi word delimiter, use the commands that operate
on bigwords.

Chet
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