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/
