Re: words separator (dot)

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/20/24 1:42 PM, ChipsRunner wrote:
> Hi I'm unable to revert the 'usual' behavior I had on Debian 10
> where something like test.something.else
> would be considered as three words
> when using alt+b and alt+f
> (or ctrl+left and ctrl+right)

I don't know which versions of readline are running on Debian 10 and 11,
but readline has always determined word characters by whether or not they
belong to the `alpha' character class, so this behavior is expected.

> on Debian 11,
> clients that use readline
> (for example the mariadb client)
> threat test.something.else as a single word.

I'd file a report with Debian to see what, if anything, they changed.
It might be something as unrelated as a locale char class difference.

I can't reproduce this using the examples shipped with readline-8.2.


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