On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 8:06 AM, 'Jürgen Krämer' via vim_use <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Elmar Hinz schrieb am 09.02.2016 um 17:19: >> >> I am observing an behaviour that doesn't seem consistent with the help. >> >> Given following text, with Cursor on A: >> >> Aaa >> bbb >> ccc >> >> Hitting 2d$ deletes the space before A. This seems to be the behaviour of >> exclusive-linewise. >> >> The help topic of exclusive-linewise explains this happens when a motion is >> exclusive. This conflicts with the description that the $-motion is >> inclusive. > > quoted from the help (55 lines below ":help d"): > > | An exception for the d{motion} command: If the motion is not linewise, the > | start and end of the motion are not in the same line, and there are only > | blanks before the start and after the end of the motion, the delete becomes > | linewise. This means that the delete also removes the line of blanks that > you > | might expect to remain. Use the |o_v| operator to force the motion to be > | characterwise. > > "only blanks" is to be understood as "only blanks or no characters at > all". > > Regards, > Jürgen
Maybe "there is nothing but blanks" or "there are zero or more blanks"? And I suppose "blanks" means "whitespace characters" (spaces or tabs) here? Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
