diff --git a/src/bin/termio.c b/src/bin/termio.c
index 87ba441d..34628ce7 100644
--- a/src/bin/termio.c
+++ b/src/bin/termio.c
@@ -2370,6 +2370,7 @@ _codepoint_is_wordsep(const Eina_Unicode g)
        '^',
        '`',
        '{',
+       '|',
        '}',
        0x00a0,
        0x00ab,