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my build of dmenu 

Add config option for word delimiters

Let the user configure word boundaries other than ' ', only works with
the portable character set.
Quentin Rameau quinq@fifth.space
Sat, 19 Dec 2015 09:32:55 +0100
commit

120e8401074254d39be916ad83bafda9ef25e6a9

parent

32f2564dbbbf5aeafb7190a3d35066142f34448f

2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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M config.def.h → config.def.h 
@@ -15,3 +15,9 @@ static const char *outbgcolor  = "#00ffff";
 static const char *outfgcolor  = "#000000";
 /* -l option; if nonzero, dmenu uses vertical list with given number of lines */
 static unsigned int lines      = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Characters not considered part of a word while deleting words
+ * for example: " /?\"&[]"
+ */
+static const char worddelimiters[] = " ";
M dmenu.c → dmenu.c 
@@ -314,9 +314,11 @@ case XK_u: /* delete left */
 			insert(NULL, 0 - cursor);
 			break;
 		case XK_w: /* delete word */
-			while (cursor > 0 && text[nextrune(-1)] == ' ')
+			while (cursor > 0 && strchr(worddelimiters,
+			       text[nextrune(-1)]))
 				insert(NULL, nextrune(-1) - cursor);
-			while (cursor > 0 && text[nextrune(-1)] != ' ')
+			while (cursor > 0 && !strchr(worddelimiters,
+			       text[nextrune(-1)]))
 				insert(NULL, nextrune(-1) - cursor);
 			break;
 		case XK_y: /* paste selection */