Re: removing past start position

Tavis Ormandy wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 01:44:50PM -0700, Brian L. Matthews wrote:
> > > You don't need CTRL-W at all if you don't mind hitting more keys, but
> > > since we do have it and configurable behaviour, why not cover all the
> > > variations people could want?
> >
> > While this is more software design philosophy than vim-specific, it's
> > because every configurable behavior requires code to parse the new option
> > (however minimal), code to use the new option, one or more tests,
> > documentation changes, it makes the code that little bit harder to maintain
> > and learn, and it makes learning to use the software a little bit harder. If
> > the new behavior is significantly better, then yes, why not. I'm not sure if
> > this qualifies.
>
>
> If you want software minimalism, you have a ton of editors to choose
> from.
>
> > There's a difference between changing long-existing behavior and adding new
> > behavior. Yes, I wouldn't be happy if bs=2 went away, I use that all the
> > time (with BS).
>
> Umm, bs already has three options. Arguing that 3 is the perfect number
> seems really odd. Any option that you wouldn't use doesn't make vim
> better for you, but it sure does for other people... that's a good thing!
>
> I happily volunteer any of the options you use that I don't to make the
> option counts neutral, how's that ;-)

To make CTRL-W delete all text until the start of the file:
:set bs=7

To make CTRL_W delete all text you ever wrote:
:set bs=42

Intermediate values TBD.

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