Clicking backspace delets words instead of a letter in zsh

[rahmanshaber]

When i click backspace in qterminal/coreterminal it removes the whole word, I tried with bash and it doesn't happen there. But i tried zsh in gnome terminal and only delete 1 letter/alphabet with one press in the backspace key.

Expected Behavior

It should only delete 1 letter/alphabet with one press in the backspace key.

Current Behavior

Possible Solution

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. type " This is not a test"
2. press backspace key once
3. it deletes the whole "test" word
4. now the whole text is "This is not a " instead "This is not a tes"

Context

System Information

• Distribution & Version: manajaro
• Kernel:
• Qt Version: 5.15.5
• lxqt-build-tools Version:
• Package version: 1.1.0.1

[stefonarch]

I'm not used to zsh but every time I use a manjaro live edition in Vbox I get disturbed by exactly this behaviour.
So I assume that there are zsh keybindings to fix and it has nothing to do with qterminal, see https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/604348/backspace-deletes-a-whole-word-zsh

Look for bindkey '^H' backward-kill-word in your ~/.zsh

[rahmanshaber]

Look for bindkey '^H' backward-kill-word in your ~/.zsh

this file doesn't exist

[stefonarch]

That means you're probably using the default file in /usr/share/zsh/manjaro-zsh-config - copy it to ~/.zshrc and edit it to your needs.

[rahmanshaber]

it's set ctrl+backspace but i am not pressing any combination