> Tony Mechelynck<antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> [11-11-02 06:40]:
>> On 02/11/11 03:53, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the zsh I am using is recoginzing ALT-backspace as "delete one
>>> word backward", which is very handy.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I have not found a way to map this in a similiar
>>> way for vim.
>>>
>>> How can I map ALT-backspace in vim?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much in advance for any help!
>>> Best regards,
>>> mcc
>>>
>>
>> In Console Vim, it may depend on your terminal: I'm not sure that every
>> terminal passes something recognizable to Vim when you hit
>> Alt-Backspace.
>>
>> In gvim, it's<M-BS> and my gvim (with GTK2/Gnome2 GUI) sees it.
>>
>> To see if Vim gets something when you hit that key combo, open Vim in
>> Insert mode in an empty buffer and hit Ctrl-V followed by
>> Alt-Backspace, then Ctrl-K followed by Alt-Backspace. If you don't get
>> anything, Vim hasn't seen the keypress. If it sees something, in gvim
>> you should see the<> equivazlent in both cases; in Console Vim you
>> should see the bytes passed by the keyboard interface after Ctrl-V, or
>> the<> equivalent (here,<M-BS>, unless the keyboard passes something
>> else) after Ctrl-K.
>>
>> In Insert mode, to delete the word before the cursor you can hit
>> Ctrl-W, see :help i_CTRL-W
>>
>> In Normal mode, you should be able to use Shift-Left as a modifier to
>> the d (delete) command, to delete [count] words leftwards, or the
>> command daw ("delete a word") to delete the word under the cursor (on
>> both sides) and the white space on one side of it. See :help
>> text-objects
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tony.
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>
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> Thank you very much for your explanations. Since I am using console
> vim most of the time I am trying to get it working there.
>
> The result of the test is, that vim doesn't see any of the keypresses.
> You wrote that is due to the terminal.
>
> I dont understand this completly I fear...
>
> The zsh, running under the same terminal adn which was the one startet
> vim, does see ALT-nackspace.
>
> What I am doing/inderstanding wrong here?
>
> Best regards,
> mcc
>
>
I don't know. Maybe nothing: Vim in Windows console uses "cooked" input
IIRC, and that puts it more at the mercy of the DOS-like keyboard driver
than if it used "raw" input; but OTOH (IIUC), "raw" input would read
AaZzQqWwMm incorrectly on AZERTY keyboards, YyZz and maybe Ww on QWERTZ
keyboards, and practically everything on Dvorak keyboards, not to
mention non-Latin keyboards. But maybe I don't UC.
See also :help win32-problems (I'm not sure how applicable these are to
Windows NT / XP / Vista / 7).
Best regards,
Tony.
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