> On 03/11/11 03:54, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> >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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Hi Tony,
I am running Linux, not windows. Sorry for not mention this...
Best regards,
mcc
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