Re: vim: how to substitute ^H into an delete action

On 08/27/2012 11:15 PM, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Monday, August 27, 2012 3:38:00 PM UTC-5, ping wrote:
>> I found :@" seems to have the same (similar) issue? or not, not sure...
>>
>> but I copied Ben's line into a register and tried :@", it doesn't work,
>>
>> looks I have to literally input them under Ex...
>>
>
> Yeah...I suppose I should have mentioned that.
>
> I don't know of a way (aside from sending a .txt file attachment) to send actual literal CTRL-H characters, so I just typed ^ and then H. Which obviously does something very different than a real ^H character.
>

Ben, that part I understood,
what I mentioned is, even after I correctly typed in c-h (via c-v c-h in
vim), and I yank it with yy, but again :@" (execute the register ")
doesn't work. I'm not sure it's my issue (mostly should be) or vim's
current implementation...

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