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Treat underscores as word boundaries in terminal using vim mode

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How do you specify underscores as Vim word boundaries when using vim mode in either bash or zsh?

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w on this_word should place the cursor on the underscore. A second w should place the cursor on the 'w' of "word".

bash zsh vim
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You can't, without patching readline. What counts as a word character is hard-coded in the readline library, as of this writing.

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