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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
