Fixing zsh's zle cut/copy keys for selected region to be identical to emacs (oh-my-zsh)

zle_cut_copy.zsh

# Documented in the zsh manual: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Guide/zshguide04.html
# under sections: "4.1.1: The simple facts" and "4.5.5: Keymaps"

# the default keymap for zle is "Emacs"

# The emacs keymap bindings for kill-region and copy-region-as-kill are a little off from emacs' defaults

# the zsh defaults are:
# M-w => kill-region
# M-W => copy-region-as-kill (that's M-S-w)
# C-w => backward-kill-word

# for emacs proper they should be:
# C-w => kill-region
# M-w => copy-region-as-kill

# in to .zshrc, add the following to rebind these:

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

# add these below ^

# copy
# NOTE: \e == ^[ or ESC, which is bound to <alt> (Meta) in tty
bindkey "\ew" copy-region-as-kill

# cut
bindkey "\C-w" kill-region