Changes: Map Ctrl-Backspace to delete previous word

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created January 2, 2002 · complexity basic · author Robert Ames · version 5.7

Put this in your vimrc and then you'll be able to type Control-Backspace to delete the previous word.

" map control-backspace to delete the previous word
:imap <C-BS> <C-W>

References

:help i_CTRL-W

Comments

In my version of Linux, this works properly in gvim, but not in terminal-vim. My keyboard mapping doesn't have a control-backspace. --Kanliot 08:38, May 28, 2012 (UTC)

There are some issues with <C-w>. For example it considers the insert mode's point of entry as a word boundary. Also, in readline <C-w> usually means to kill the previous WORD. There is a way to make it more readline-ish:

inoremap <C-w> <C-\><C-o>dB
inoremap <C-BS> <C-\><C-o>db

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 Put this in your vimrc and then you'll be able to type Control-Backspace to delete the previous word.
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 " map control-backspace to delete the previous word
-:imap &lt;C-BS&gt; &lt;Esc&gt;vBc
+:imap <C-BS> <C-W>
 </pre>
-==Comments==
+==References==
+*{{help|i_CTRL-W}}
-Vim has a built-in keyboard command for deleting the previous word while in Insert mode: Ctrl-W, which works the same way it does on the command line of your favorite shell (bash, right? (-;)
-So this also works:
+==See also==
+*{{help|i_CTRL-U}}
+==Comments==
- :imap &lt;C-BS&gt; &lt;C-W&gt;
+In my version of Linux, this works properly in gvim, but not in terminal-vim.  My keyboard mapping doesn't have a control-backspace.  --[[User:Kanliot|Kanliot]] 08:38, May 28, 2012 (UTC)
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-In ''insert'' mode only, &lt;Ctrl-W&gt; will backward delete one word at a time until the cursor reaches the beginning of the inserted text for the current line. Also in INSERT &lt;Ctrl-D&gt; will backtab autoindents and &lt;Ctrl-U&gt; will delete all inserted text on the current line. However, nobody uses these vi feature in Vim since Vim has more general solutions for these needs.
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+There are some issues with <C-w>. For example it considers the insert mode's point of entry as a word boundary. Also, in readline <C-w> usually means to kill the previous WORD. There is a way to make it more readline-ish:
+<pre>
+inoremap <C-w> <C-\><C-o>dB
+inoremap <C-BS> <C-\><C-o>db
+</pre>