iTerm2 - Deleting an entire word until whitespace

Question

I have my iTerm2 configured with a shortcut to delete a word (keyboard mapping of Hex code 0x17). However, I want it to delete until reaching a whitespace:

Current: cd hello-world -> cd hello-

Wanted: cd hello-world -> cd

Is there a way to configure the non-word separators somehow? Or to achieve this by other means?

You are using zsh, right? I believe that is the default on macOS these days. Please edit your question adn add that in (if you don't know, look at the output of ps -p $$, does it mention bash or zsh? — terdon, Jan 29 '23 at 15:33
Does this answer you question? zsh keybindings: make backward-kill-word act on whole quoted string — Kusalananda, Jan 29 '23 at 17:18
Also tangentally related: What's the shortcut to delete a word "forward" in a unix terminal? — Kusalananda, Jan 29 '23 at 17:19
Thanks! I added zsh tag - also, @Kusalananda - the link you provided seemed to solve it! — Yaron Budowski, Jan 29 '23 at 21:05

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 29 '23 at 21:07

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Thanks to @Kusalananda - This answer seems to do it: Adding the following to the .zshrc file:

autoload -U select-word-style
select-word-style whitespace

answered Jan 29 '23 at 21:07

Yaron Budowski

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iTerm2 - Deleting an entire word until whitespace

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