On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:18:38PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:59:36PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > In Vim, > > > > ncw > > > > deletes n words and puts you in insert mode. Is there a similar construct > > for deleting n characters and leaving you in insert mode? > > > > I'm using the Vim plugin for the Eclipse IDE. Unfortunately, it doesn't > > support visual mode, and something like "ncx" (which doesn't work) > > along with "." would be almost as good. > > ncl will do what you want. So would nxi (same number of characters...).
<n>xi can't be repeated with the . key because it's two commands. BTW, I ususally type <n>cw or <n>cl as c<n>w or c<n>l because commands like <n>i insert n times, and I would expect <n>cl to do similarly even though in reality it doesn't. --Ken -- Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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