On 02/11/11 03:53, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
the zsh I am using is recoginzing ALT-backspace as "delete one
word backward", which is very handy.
Unfortunately I have not found a way to map this in a similiar
way for vim.
How can I map ALT-backspace in vim?
Thank you very much in advance for any help!
Best regards,
mcc
In Console Vim, it may depend on your terminal: I'm not sure that every
terminal passes something recognizable to Vim when you hit Alt-Backspace.
In gvim, it's <M-BS> and my gvim (with GTK2/Gnome2 GUI) sees it.
To see if Vim gets something when you hit that key combo, open Vim in
Insert mode in an empty buffer and hit Ctrl-V followed by Alt-Backspace,
then Ctrl-K followed by Alt-Backspace. If you don't get anything, Vim
hasn't seen the keypress. If it sees something, in gvim you should see
the <> equivazlent in both cases; in Console Vim you should see the
bytes passed by the keyboard interface after Ctrl-V, or the <>
equivalent (here, <M-BS>, unless the keyboard passes something else)
after Ctrl-K.
In Insert mode, to delete the word before the cursor you can hit Ctrl-W,
see :help i_CTRL-W
In Normal mode, you should be able to use Shift-Left as a modifier to
the d (delete) command, to delete [count] words leftwards, or the
command daw ("delete a word") to delete the word under the cursor (on
both sides) and the white space on one side of it. See :help text-objects
Best regards,
Tony.
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