Re: [vile] On backspace (feature requests)

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

 |Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
 ||On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 07:47:38PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 ||> Fabien COUTANT <address@hidden> wrote:
 ||>|[...]
 ||>|> Is it possible that a backspace spaces back shiftwidth (or
 ||>|> tabstop) characters in notabinsert mode, _if_ the cursor is
 ||>|> positioned on a clean sw/ts position and preceeded by a sw/ts
 ||>|> number of spaces (or multiple thereof)?  That would be great!
 | ...
 ||>|Do you mean in insert mode ? This *looks* like the behaviour of ^D \
 ||>|(dedent,
 ||>|while ^T is indent) which is vi's standard. I know BS may look practical
 | ...
 ||> Yes!  Oh i really did not know that, but vim documents it for
 ||> insert-mode.
 ||> 
 ||>|You could remap backspace to ^D but you would loose (and miss) the \
 ||>|standard
 ||>|key.  Why not trying to get used back to the vi standard ?
 ||
 ||Oddly enough, the ^D and ^T used for this purpose aren't rebindable
 ||(unlike just about everything else).

I feel i have to add a comment regarding the current discussion on
oss-security@ and vim swap files.  Being able to specify a backup
(and swap) directory with vim is also something i be fond of,
because for one there is only one global umask, which is why
i have 0077, even though that i usually only want in $HOME and
$TMPDIR (on multiuser systems i have a private $TMPDIR, yet that
option is no longer used by default on at least OpenBSD), and then
of course i know where the stuff is, do "rm ~/traffic/*~ etc." on
Saturday and know i am done with it.  Also ~/traffic has 0700,
definitely.

Ciao,

--steffen
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