`word-separators`

Sets the session's conception of what characters are considered word separators, for the purposes of the next and previous word commands in copy mode.

Scope: session
Type: Text
Default: !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^`{|}~
Set: set-option word-separators value
Read: show-options word-separators

Description#

Sets the session's conception of what characters are considered word separators, for the purposes of the next and previous word commands in copy mode.

Releases#

tmux 3.7c : default to !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^`{|}~
tmux 3.2a : present

Source#

Defined in: options-table.c:1064
C source reference: options_table
CLI Manual: Original manual entry

Used by#

Library documentation that names this option.

Rust: options.generated.WORD_SEPARATORS
Go: tmux.GlobalSessionScope.SetWordSeparators, tmux.Session.SetWordSeparators, tmux.SessionOptionValues.WordSeparators