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

[DJ Mills]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Chet Ramey <address@hidden> wrote:

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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This is the same way b and e work in vi, to do it any differently wouldn't make any sense