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| + | In insert mode, pressing Ctrl-W deletes the previous word ({{help|word}}). If a non-Vim method is wanted, the following mapping can be used in gvim to allow Ctrl-Backspace to be used instead of Ctrl-W: |
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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 Ctrl-Backspace to delete the previous word in insert mode. |
:imap <C-BS> <C-W> |
:imap <C-BS> <C-W> |
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| + | If the mapping is always wanted, place the above in your [[vimrc]]. |
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| + | By default, Ctrl-W only deletes previous words in the text entered after last starting insert mode, and stops deleting text at the beginning of a line. The [[backspace and delete problems|'backspace' option]] can be set to control what is wanted. For example, the following causes Ctrl-W to always delete the previous word: |
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| + | :set backspace=indent,eol,start |
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==Comments== |
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| + | Mapping Ctrl-Backspace does not work in terminal Vim. Following is a workaround. |
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| − | 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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| + | noremap! <C-BS> <C-w> |
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| + | noremap! <C-h> <C-w> |
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| + | </pre> |
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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: |
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| + | inoremap <C-w> <C-\><C-o>dB |
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| + | inoremap <C-BS> <C-\><C-o>db |
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| + | </pre> |
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Revision as of 07:50, 9 September 2015
created January 2, 2002 · complexity basic · author Robert Ames · version 6.0
In insert mode, pressing Ctrl-W deletes the previous word (:help word). If a non-Vim method is wanted, the following mapping can be used in gvim to allow Ctrl-Backspace to be used instead of Ctrl-W:
" Map Ctrl-Backspace to delete the previous word in insert mode. :imap <C-BS> <C-W>
If the mapping is always wanted, place the above in your vimrc.
By default, Ctrl-W only deletes previous words in the text entered after last starting insert mode, and stops deleting text at the beginning of a line. The 'backspace' option can be set to control what is wanted. For example, the following causes Ctrl-W to always delete the previous word:
:set backspace=indent,eol,start
References
See also
Comments
Mapping Ctrl-Backspace does not work in terminal Vim. Following is a workaround.
noremap! <C-BS> <C-w> noremap! <C-h> <C-w>
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