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If you delete backwards in vim, it doesn't delete the character under the cursor. What do you need to do to have it delete, say, back to the last space?
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If you delete backwards in vim, it doesn't delete the character under the cursor. What do you need to do to have it delete, say, back to the last space?
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Regarding deleting the character under the cursor when deleting backwards, this may be what you're after:
Prepare to have your mind blown:
dvb
Vim makes a distinction between inclusive and exclusive motion.
v
toggles the "inclusiveness" or "exclusiveness" of a motion. For an example of toggling the opposite direction (inclusive => exclusive), try it withe
:
dve
See
:help
inclusive for an explication. Until now, you thought it was just esoteric nonsense! Didn't you? Didn't you?! (At least, my eyes glazed over whenever I used to read that section in the help... :)
source: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/24wbuz/command_to_delete_one_full_word_backwards/chbbkfk/
So--to combine that with deleting backwards to the last space--you can use dvT<space>
.
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dT<space>
to delete back to a space, where I've used <space> to mean the space character. Alternatively, you could use
dB
to delete back to the beginning of the current WORD, a WORD being a string of non-space characters. See
:help T
:help B
:help WORD
or more generally
:help left-right-motions
:help word-motions
:help motion.txt
In all those cases, though, Vim begins with the character to the left of the cursor.
"Vim begins with..." - so
xdB
etc. – RedGrittyBrick – 2014-06-22T08:58:00.0401This answer seems to ignore the whole "character under the cursor" half of the question, beyond effectively stating in the last sentence that none of this answer's content helps with that. – 8bittree – 2016-11-16T19:26:31.987