Re: delete lines
And then I decide that I want to remove $blah2, so I start to press
backspace from here:
fucntion foo() {
$blah;
$blah2; - cursor here
}
and then when I get to the beginning of the line, it stops. Can I make
it so that it will follow up to the end of $blah on the previous line?
Sounds like you want to tweak your 'backspace' option.
:set backspace
should tell you what it currently is.
:help 'backspace'
should describe what's available in how backspace behaves with
regards to various conditions.
You likely want to have a line in your vimrc that looks something
like
set backspace=indent,eol,start
that will allow you to backspace over all three categories of
things that might not otherwise be backspace-over-able. :)
-tim
RE: delete lines
The problem is your setting of backspace. It sounds like currently bs is
equal to indent,start or something similar. You need
indent,start,eol. The easiest way to do this is simply put this in
your .vimrc file:
:set bs=2
That should do it!
Max
-Original Message-
From: Ben lemasurier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 10:51 AM
To: vim@vim.org
Subject: delete lines
Hey everyone,
Is there a way to make it so that when I am editing something like
this:
function foo() {
$blah;
$blah2;
}
And then I decide that I want to remove $blah2, so I start to press
backspace from here:
fucntion foo() {
$blah;
$blah2; - cursor here
}
and then when I get to the beginning of the line, it stops. Can I make
it so that it will follow up to the end of $blah on the previous line?
thanks!
Ben
Re: delete lines
Today (Thu, 10 Aug 2006), Ben lemasurier wrote:
And then I decide that I want to remove $blah2, so I start to press
backspace from here:
fucntion foo() {
$blah;
$blah2; - cursor here
}
and then when I get to the beginning of the line, it stops. Can I
make it so that it will follow up to the end of $blah on the
previous line?
Try :set backspace+=eol -- see :help 'backspace'.
- Christian
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Re: delete lines
From: Christian J. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: delete lines
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:00:45 -0600 (MDT)
Hi,
Today (Thu, 10 Aug 2006), Ben lemasurier wrote:
And then I decide that I want to remove $blah2, so I start to press
backspace from here:
fucntion foo() {
$blah;
$blah2; - cursor here
}
and then when I get to the beginning of the line, it stops. Can I
make it so that it will follow up to the end of $blah on the
previous line?
Try :set backspace+=eol -- see :help 'backspace'.
- Christian
--
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Ben Franklin
Christian J. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://infynity.spodzone.com/
PGP keys: 0x893B0EAF / 0xFB698360 http://infynity.spodzone.com/pgp
is it also possible to enable the backspace key in normal mode --
the delete key is working in normal, so why should I miss the
backspace key ?
:)
mcc
Re: delete lines
is it also possible to enable the backspace key in normal mode -- the delete key is working in normal, so why should I miss the backspace key ? :nnoremap BS X (all typed literally with greater-than and less-than signs included) should do the trick. -tim
Re: delete lines
:nnoremap BS X with this I cannot cross lines (delete $ between line n+1 and line n coming from line n+1 while backspacing and it is not possible to delete the last (or in other words the first char after ^ ) char of a line. Something perhaps like :nnoremap bs ibsrightesc might do the trick. One edge-case I found with this one is if you're on a blank line and use backspace, you delete the backspace, but end up on the last character of the previous line, thus if you have abcd X with the cursor on the X, and hit backspace, you end up on top of the d on the previous line (rather than after it). Thus, hitting backspace again will leave you with abd instead of abc as one would normally want. Haven't yet found a good solution to that one. -tim
