X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <17393e3e0807110812h24f46732kddd9cda58130660c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:12:55 -0400 From: "Matt Wozniski" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: un-indenting doesn't work with vim In-Reply-To: <20080711130135.GO24644@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080711130135.GO24644@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 11 14:53, Robert Latest wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> When writing stuff in "vim", I can't unindent without first havin to >> leave the Insert mode. In other words, I type a line, hit "enter", >> then "tab", and do the next line. When I hit enter again, the cursor >> goes onto the first position of the indented line, which is what I >> want. But if at some point I wish to un-indent by pressing backspace >> at the beginning of a new line, nothing happens. I first have to exit >> Insert mode, then use "x" to delete one tab, and then go back into >> insert mode. >> >> This is very annoying. On my Linux box at home, vim behaves as expected. > > That's not standard behaviour in vim, rather a special setting on your > machine. Either in your own .vimrc or in the system-wise vim config files. > > The standard way to unindent is to type Ctrl-D. > > > Corinna Exactly so. The vim setting the OP is looking for is ":set backspace=indent,eol,start" to allow backspacing, respectively, over automatically added indenting, the beginning of a line (deleting the EOL of the previous line), and the place where you started insert mode. Throw that in your .vimrc and things should work the way you want. ~Matt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/