30 years of using Vi and I did not know about ^T / ^D. Mind blown.
Well at least now I finally know everything about everything... Ha. Chris On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 8:19 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> wrote: > |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! > ... > |>|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 > ... > |> 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). > > That is explicitly mentioned in the manual. Yes, the situation is > suboptimal, my brain is trained for decades to simply BS and get > what it wants. Right-hander brain, what can i do about that which > is not burdensome. > I really had forgotten to know about ^D, it works in the meantime. > > --steffen > | > |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, > |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one > |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off > |(By Robert Gernhardt) > > _______________________________________________ > vile mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/vile >
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