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TylerBrock / mongo-hacker

MongoDB Shell Enhancements for Hackers
tylerbrock.github.io/mongo-hacker
MIT License
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Delete word backwards in a query #190

Closed dpkshrma closed 5 years ago

dpkshrma commented 6 years ago

Is it possible to add a word detection mechanism while deleting using shortcut ctrl-w which is present in most shells by default.

For example, pressing ctrl-w on the query: > db.cars.insert removes the entire query Expected functionality would be just the removal of .insert

I'm not sure if that's a feasible request or not but putting it forward because I think it is very annoying not to be able to quickly delete a word while typing in a query.

stennie commented 5 years ago

@dpkshrma Keyboard shortcuts are part of the underlying mongo shell and cannot be overridden through JavaScript extensions like Mongo Hacker.

The equivalent of the ctrl-w behaviour you described is currently Meta-[Backspace] (backward-kill-word).

On macOS the Meta key is mapped to ESC by default, so esc + delete should work.