On Sunday, July 1, 2012 1:29:49 PM UTC-3, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Saturday, June 30, 2012 5:34:35 PM UTC-5, Gerardo Marset wrote:
> > I have sofftabstop (and shiftwidth) set to 4, and expandtab enabled. Thus,
> > when deleting groups of spaces, vim treats them as tabs and deletes them 4
> > at a time. I want vim to do that only if from the start of the line and up
> > to the cursor's position there's only spaces and nothing else.
> > Currently I'm doing the following:
> >
> > inoremap <silent> <BS> <C-R>=fbs()<CR>
> >
> > function fbs()
> > if getline('.') =~ '^ \{' . (col('.') - 1) . '}'
> > return "\<BS>"
> > endif
> > return "\<Left>\<Del>"
> > endfunction
> >
> > It works, but it breaks the repeat (dot) command, and I don't want that :).
> > I think it's because of the <Left>. Any help (either modifying the previous
> > code so that it doesn't break the dot command or coming up with a new one
> > that doesn't) is appreciated.
>
> You might try determining how many characters got deleted (getline in
> combination with your cursor position command may help here) and insert
> enough characters after the BS to make up for the difference. The thing
> interrupting your undo sequence (and therefore messing up your repeat
> command, '.') is the <Left> key, so you just need to avoid doing that.
> Dropping out of insert mode (even temporarily with <C-O>) will do the same
> thing unfortunately, and using setline() or setpos() is possible but will not
> be reflected in the repeat sequence without a lot of effort and additional
> mappings.
Thanks for the suggestion, but how could I insert a BS in the line without
returning the function?
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