On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Alex Gal <[email protected]> wrote:
> It seems that dE deletes only up to the end of the word and not to the
> end of the line ?

Whoops, you're right, however there is a difference between dw and dE.
I believe the latter defines a "word" by something surrounded by
whitespace, where as the former includes additional characters for
word boundaries.

For example, imagine you have this line of text:

"I have uploaded img_0412.jpg to the web server."

And your cursor is on the 'i' of "img_0412.jpg". If you type "dw", it
will delete everything up to ".jpg" (leaving the extension) however
"dE" will delete the entire string "img_0412.jpg".

And, yeah, I use 'D' to erase from the cursor to the end of the line.
It's one of those things (like typing a password) that I cannot recall
unless I am actually typing it without thinking... :-/


Chris
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