deletion of newline with dw
kyx0r opened this issue · comments
Hello @aligrudi when using dw to delete a word if the word is touching the \n the \n is deleted also. Is that a bug or a feature? I know that busybox vi does not delete the \n
One thing to note that this can be worked around if you use de or dE in this situation, or ce or C and it will not wrap into next line
Kyryl <notifications@github.com> wrote:
One thing to note that this can be worked around if you use de or dE
in this situation, or ce or C and it will not wrap into next line
The behaviour of dw seems implementation dependent. In Vim, dw does
not remove the words on the next line, unless a count of at least 2
is specified. Elvis has almost the same behaviour, except that dw
does not remove words on the next line, even if a count is provided.
In Neatvi (see lbuf_wordbeg() in mot.c), dw stops when removing a
blank line (two consecutive new line characters). Actually, dw
always deletes until the destination of w command, and unlike some
other implementations does not consider special-cases for dw. I am
not sure, but it seems more consistent.
Ali
Yes, I think this is actually fine to stay like that, it was just weird to me that it worked this way. But I just have to adjust my editing skills to use different key combo in those situations.