> On 03/11/11 17:07, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> >Tony Mechelynck<antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> [11-11-03 17:00]:
> >>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.
> >>>>--
> >>>>hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict:
> >>>>209. Your house stinks because you haven't cleaned it in a week.
> >>>>
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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
> >
> >
> >
>
> Well, under Linux each different terminal (Linux console, KDE konsole,
> gnome-terminal, xterm, mlterm, ...) can react differently, but gvim has
> a better grasp of what you type than any of them, because there's one
> fewer layer between Vim and your keyboard. For a similar reason it also
> gives you better control of what you display (more colours, better
> control of: fonts, multi-language texts, cursor shapes, ...). IMHO the
> only job for which console Vim is better than the GUI is when
> displaying RTL and LTR scripts together in a single file, in a
> full-bidi terminal such as mlterm.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
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For me the question remains, whether zsh from which vim is started
recognizes ALT-Backspace well and vim does not... ?!
Best regards,
mcc
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