I'm wondering if it's possible to assign a key to go back or forward a full parameter in bash. That is, if I have:
prompt> somecmd a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h a_b_c_d_e_f_g`
on my terminal (and say the cursor is at the end), and I want to go to the beginning of the first parameter, I have to press alt-f 15 times (note: I'm using putty on a windows machine). I commonly work with command lines that are 500+ characters long, where most of the command line is paths with underscores in them. It would be really nice to able to skip to the previous (whitespace delimited) parameter instead of the previous word.
(note: I found one question, where it was suggested to use ^R followed by space, but this gives me the previous command rather than searching for the previous space for some reason).