On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 07:47:38PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Fabien COUTANT <[email protected]> wrote: > |[...] > |> Is it possible that a backspace spaces back shiftwidth (or > |> tabstop) characters in notabinsert mode, _if_ the cursor is > |> positioned on a clean sw/ts position and preceeded by a sw/ts > |> number of spaces (or multiple thereof)? That would be great! > | > |Hello > | > |Do you mean in insert mode ? This *looks* like the behaviour of ^D (dedent, > |while ^T is indent) which is vi's standard. I know BS may look practical > |but it may just as well be bad habit given by vim, trying to be as > |notepad-like editors. > > Yes! Oh i really did not know that, but vim documents it for > insert-mode. > > |You could remap backspace to ^D but you would loose (and miss) the standard > |key. Why not trying to get used back to the vi standard ?
Oddly enough, the ^D and ^T used for this purpose aren't rebindable (unlike just about everything else). -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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