"backspace*2" mean hit the backspace key twice and the "S-g" mean "G"
Some friend has different char when we discuss in SHLUG, they has " ! l ? " and so on. I copied the texts from BBC News, shared with other friends. We want to improve our English. Because some of them dose not use Linux, I edit the text. 2012/3/16 Charles Campbell <charles.e.campb...@nasa.gov> > Gary Johnson wrote: > >> On 2012-03-15, Yuanchen Xie wrote: >> >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I had send this to bugs AT vim.org,but I'm not sure if this address is >>> to >>> continue working. >>> >>> When I was edit English text I has this strang character. >>> >>> These are excerpt ( 3000+ lines total ) G >>> >>> So just what is it about Susan that the people find so fascinating?\\ >>> Arguably, it is the fact she is such a class act.\\ >>> However, many have suggested that her biggest appeal lies in her >>> unassuming >>> persona.\\ >>> >>> >>> What I edited that was used as .tex for LaTeX. So there are "\\" at the >>> end of >>> each line. >>> I want to share the content with others in the format such as .txt or >>> .doc. >>> I want to delete the "\\". >>> >>> I edit in vim as follows: >>> C-v -> S-g -> S-$ ,then S-A ,then Backspace*2 ,Esc >>> >>> However, the \\ are still there. ( The "\\" has been deleted now, using >>> ":%s/\\ >>> \\//g". Thanks SHLUG! ) >>> What was worse, a strang char appered behind the "\\" in each line. >>> Like this: >>> >>> So just what is it about Susan that the people find so >>> fascinating?\\1 >>> Arguably, it is the fact she is such a class act.\\1 >>> However, many have suggested that her biggest appeal lies in her >>> unassuming >>> persona.\\1 >>> >>> >>> When I discussed in Shanghai LUG Mail-list (shlug AT googlegroups) , >>> other >>> friends also had the different char appered. >>> A friend YiYun( lilydjwg AT gmail ) think the char was the one under the >>> cursor >>> before I typed Esc. >>> >>> We think it's a bug. >>> >>> I use lubuntu 11.10, Vim 7.3, edit in terminal (Guake). >>> >>> >> I can reproduce the bug in gvim 7.3.138 (from the Cream site) on >> Windows XP. It took a few tries. In addition to your instructions >> above, I had to have only those three lines in the file and the >> cursor was initially in the first column on the first line. The >> extra character in my case was '?', which happens to be the last >> character on the first line. >> >> So just what is it about Susan that the people find so fascinating? >> Arguably, it is the fact she is such a class act.\\? >> However, many have suggested that her biggest appeal lies in her >> unassuming persona.\\? >> >> > I have not been able to duplicate this issue (Scientific Linux). > > Does "backspace*2" mean hit the backspace key twice? Or hit the ctrl-h > key twice? Or something else? > When I hit the backspace key and then *2, I get > > E486: Pattern not found: So just what is it about Susan that the > people find so fascinating? ^@ Arguably, it is the fact > she is such a class act\.\\\\ ^@ > However, many have sug > gested that her biggest appeal lies in her unassuming persona\.\\ > > Regards, > Chip Campbell > > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit > http://www.vim.org/maillist.**php<http://www.vim.org/maillist.php> > -- @XYuanchen 世事浮雲何足問，不如高臥且加餐。 -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
