Re: inclusive-linewise: Is the help topic wrong?

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 8:06 AM, 'Jürgen Krämer' via vim_use
<vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Elmar Hinz schrieb am 09.02.2016 um 17:19:
>>
>> I am observing an behaviour that doesn't seem consistent with the help.
>>
>> Given following text, with Cursor on A:
>>
>> Aaa
>> bbb
>> ccc
>>
>> Hitting 2d$ deletes the space before A. This seems to be the behaviour of exclusive-linewise.
>>
>> The help topic of exclusive-linewise explains this happens when a motion is exclusive. This conflicts with the description that the $-motion is inclusive.
>
> quoted from the help (55 lines below ":help d"):
>
> | An exception for the d{motion} command: If the motion is not linewise, the
> | start and end of the motion are not in the same line, and there are only
> | blanks before the start and after the end of the motion, the delete becomes
> | linewise. This means that the delete also removes the line of blanks that you
> | might expect to remain. Use the |o_v| operator to force the motion to be
> | characterwise.
>
> "only blanks" is to be understood as "only blanks or no characters at
> all".
>
> Regards,
> Jürgen

Maybe "there is nothing but blanks" or "there are zero or more
blanks"? And I suppose "blanks" means "whitespace characters" (spaces
or tabs) here?

Best regards,
Tony.

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