On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:43:40PM -0500, Ken Bloom wrote: > 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.
Yeah, I missed the "." part. > 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. Yeah, I do, too. It makes a bit more sense to me to say "change the text consisting of the next 3 words", then "do `change the next word' 3 times" (which, as you point out, would be wrong anyway). -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
