On Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 6:31:03 AM UTC+1, Random832 wrote: > Some interesting information: > > 1. Other vi implementations differ on how they behave here: > > - Elvis behaves the same way. > > - Heirloom vi behaves the same way. But *crashes* on some operating > systems if asked to do this (it works on Ubuntu, but not Mac OSX, > for me). > > - Most other vi implementations (nvi, vile, and Emacs' evil and viper > modes) do not behave this way. > > 2. 2cw does _not_ delete the second linebreak, in any tested editor. > > 3. The POSIX vi standard specifies some distinction between 2cw and 2dw: > > - If there are <blank> characters or an end-of-line that precede the > countth bigword, and the associated command is c, the region of > text shall be up to and including the last character before the > preceding <blank> characters or end-of-line. > > - If there are <blank> characters or an end-of-line that precede the > bigword, and the associated command is d or y, the region of text > shall be up to and including the last <blank> before the start of > the bigword or end-of-line. > > (Reference to "bigwords" are because this is actually the description > of the W command.) > > I _think_ that this is _not_ intended to imply vim's behavior, since > the end-of-line is, at least in context, not a <blank>.
Thank you for the interesting input. I conclude you think the vim behaviour is at least disputable here. I keep this im mind for the future. For now I try to emulate Vim behaviour. Obviously this is an example of help: exclusive-linewise That can be proved with, with cursor on X: Xxx xxx xxx xxx With 2dw exclusive-likewise behaviour is used and the whitespace before X is deleted. With 1dw neither whitespace nor line-break are deleted. Elmar -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
