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> legend@cheshire.oxy.edu (Linda A. Malcor) writes:
>
> I am trying to map (and map!) the delete key on my system to delete.
>
> Example:
> :map! {ESC seq for delete} ^[lxi
>
> The problem I run into is that using the "l" to reverse the effect of
> escaping out of input mode works great everywhere except the beginning
> of line. At the begining of a line I end up killing the wrong character!
> Example:
> 123456
> ^Cursor at beginning of the line in input mode and delete map! is hit.
> 13456
>  ^Cursor and wrong results
>
> Help! I could be aproching this from the wrong angle.

When you escape out of insert mode at the beginning of the line, the cursor
cannot make the backward hop it usually wants to do.  To correct this, just
give it a little breathing space with the following insert mode map...

:map! whatever  ^V^V ^[xxi

where ^V^V ^[ is 2 Control-V's followed by a space followed by the escape.
Hope that helps...


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