From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 17 14:14:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F26F37B405 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:14:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.247.143.121.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.143.121] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 165Dj7-0006Xs-00; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:14:17 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAHMDpP66630; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:13:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:13:51 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: parv Cc: Mike Meyer , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to modify a "word" definition Message-ID: <20011117141351.D63067@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <25403662@toto.iv> <15350.28513.309480.583151@guru.mired.org> <20011117140156.A82747@moo.holy.cow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011117140156.A82747@moo.holy.cow>; from parv_@yahoo.com on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:01:56PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:01:56PM -0500, parv wrote: > in message <15350.28513.309480.583151@guru.mired.org>, > wrote Mike Meyer thusly... > > > > parv types: > > > i need help to search for information on how to modify/change > > > a program's definition of a "word". the programs that i am > > > most interested are: bash 2.04, vi (bsd), mutt "reader", slrn > > > "reader". > > [...] > > > my definition of a word would be: > > > a character sequence which does not any white space and > > > other special character(s). the special characters are > > > adjustable. > > > > That's reasonable. The only real questions are whether you can adjust > > the special characters, and how you do so if you can. The answer is > > usually in the man pages - though it may not be one you like. > > i didn't find much in manpages for bash, Look for 'IFS' in bash(1). -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message