created by

Christian J. Robinson

script type

utility

description

This script will cause your backspace key to delete all the whitespace characters before the cursor when the cursor is on a whitespace character. For example, if you typed "x       x" and then hit backspace twice, you'd only have "x".  This can be especially useful when auto/smart/c/expression indenting is on. This script isn't very useful if you don't put "set backspace=indent,eol,start" or at least "set backsapce=indent,start" in your vimrc. (Thanks to Tomi Mickelsson for testing and bug reports.)

install details

Source the script from your vimrc or just place it in your plugin directory.

Click on the package to download.

package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
GreedyBackspace.vim	0.6	2022-08-22	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Update to Vim 9 (no functionality added)
GreedyBackspace.vim	0.5	2005-11-23	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- When 'fileformat' was "dos" and g:greedybackspacenl was set too many characters could be deleted.
GreedyBackspace.vim	0.4	2005-11-16	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- g:greedybackspacenl = 1 wasn't working properly when the cursor was on the first character of a line.
GreedyBackspace.vim	0.3	2005-11-11	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- The 'smarttab' option was confusing the logic. - You can now do ":let g:greedybackspacenl = 1" to cause the script to eat newlines as well.
GreedyBackspace.vim	0.2	2005-11-03	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Commentary added. - Syntax tweaks, no functional changes.
GreedyBackspace.vim	0.1	2005-10-31	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	Initial upload

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