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)
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