Re: [vile] On backspace (feature requests)

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Fabien COUTANT <address@hidden> wrote:
 |[...]
 |> Is it possible that a backspace spaces back shiftwidth (or
 |> tabstop) characters in notabinsert mode, _if_ the cursor is
 |> positioned on a clean sw/ts position and preceeded by a sw/ts
 |> number of spaces (or multiple thereof)?  That would be great!
 |
 |Hello
 |
 |Do you mean in insert mode ? This *looks* like the behaviour of ^D (dedent,
 |while ^T is indent) which is vi's standard. I know BS may look practical
 |but it may just as well be bad habit given by vim, trying to be as
 |notepad-like editors.

Yes!  Oh i really did not know that, but vim documents it for
insert-mode.

 |You could remap backspace to ^D but you would loose (and miss) the standard
 |key.  Why not trying to get used back to the vi standard ?

Shame on me.
Thanks for the hint!

--steffen
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