Re: [vile] On backspace (feature requests)

[J. Chris Coppick]

30 years of using Vi and I did not know about ^T / ^D.

Mind blown.

Well at least now I finally know everything about everything...  Ha.

   Chris

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 8:19 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso <address@hidden> wrote:

Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
 |On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 07:47:38PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |> Fabien COUTANT <address@hidden> wrote:
 |>|[...]
 |>|> Is it possible that a backspace spaces back shiftwidth (or
 |>|> tabstop) characters in notabinsert mode, _if_ the cursor is
 |>|> positioned on a clean sw/ts position and preceeded by a sw/ts
 |>|> number of spaces (or multiple thereof)?  That would be great!
 ...
 |>|Do you mean in insert mode ? This *looks* like the behaviour of ^D \
 |>|(dedent,
 |>|while ^T is indent) which is vi's standard. I know BS may look practical
 ...
 |> Yes!  Oh i really did not know that, but vim documents it for
 |> insert-mode.
 |>
 |>|You could remap backspace to ^D but you would loose (and miss) the \
 |>|standard
 |>|key.  Why not trying to get used back to the vi standard ?
 |
 |Oddly enough, the ^D and ^T used for this purpose aren't rebindable
 |(unlike just about everything else).

That is explicitly mentioned in the manual.  Yes, the situation is
suboptimal, my brain is trained for decades to simply BS and get
what it wants.  Right-hander brain, what can i do about that which
is not burdensome.
I really had forgotten to know about ^D, it works in the meantime.

--steffen
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|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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