Saturday, November 5, 2011

Re: mapping ALT-backspace

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 21:07, Tony Mechelynck
<antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tony, is there an alternative way to delete the previous word from
>> Command mode. I often i^w<esc>   but if I could save some keystrokes I
>> would appreciate it. For that matter, what is the keyboard shortcut
>> for going _back_ one word?
>
> Shift-Left, as I said. Or, by looking it up (by ":help <S-Left>" without the
> quotes), you would have found b as a synonym.
>

I did not realize would be how to look it up. The VIM help pages are
very flexible in the input they will accept! Thanks.


> The rightest of the "right" Vim ways is to RTFM.
>

Ouch, I deserved that!

Thanks, Tony. Have a great week!

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