Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> [11-11-03 17:00]: > On 03/11/11 03:54, [email protected] wrote: > >Tony Mechelynck<[email protected]> [11-11-02 06:40]: > >>On 02/11/11 03:53, [email protected] 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. > >>-- > >>hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: > >>209. Your house stinks because you haven't cleaned it in a week. > >> > >>-- > >>You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > >>Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > >>For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > >> > > > > > >Hi Tony, > > > >Thank you very much for your explanations. Since I am using console > >vim most of the time I am trying to get it working there. > > > >The result of the test is, that vim doesn't see any of the keypresses. > >You wrote that is due to the terminal. > > > >I dont understand this completly I fear... > > > >The zsh, running under the same terminal adn which was the one startet > >vim, does see ALT-nackspace. > > > >What I am doing/inderstanding wrong here? > > > >Best regards, > >mcc > > > > > > I don't know. Maybe nothing: Vim in Windows console uses "cooked" input > IIRC, and that puts it more at the mercy of the DOS-like keyboard > driver than if it used "raw" input; but OTOH (IIUC), "raw" input would > read AaZzQqWwMm incorrectly on AZERTY keyboards, YyZz and maybe Ww on > QWERTZ keyboards, and practically everything on Dvorak keyboards, not > to mention non-Latin keyboards. But maybe I don't UC. > > See also :help win32-problems (I'm not sure how applicable these are to > Windows NT / XP / Vista / 7). > > > Best regards, > Tony. > -- > We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? > -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php >
Hi Tony, I am running Linux, not windows. Sorry for not mention this... Best regards, mcc -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
