On Friday 16 January 2004 16:37, Micha Feigin wrote: [...] > vi (not vim) I haven't fully figured out yet. Mostly the > part about deleting text (the backspace functionality), and while I > am on the subject I'll be happy if someone could drop me a hint. [...]
Now we're really OT. I still mostly use a small subset of vi that I happen to be able to remember - when I need more, I have an ancient and battered copy of "A User Guide to the Unix System" from 1985 which has a chapter on ed and ex, and one on vi... Enough rambling, the short answer is navigate to the beginning of the deletion and use 'x' to delete a character forward or 'X' for your backspace funcionality. For whole lines I use ':d' (which is dropping into ed mode) or ':dn' where n is an integer, for multiple lines. Or to cut 3 words navigate to the beginning of first one and 'd3w'. And you can use change commands instead such as 'c4w' with the cursor at the beginning of a word to insert text in place of 4 words. There is also 'r' to replace a single character without having to <esc> back out of insert mode. HTH -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
