[vox-tech] vim: change characters, then dumping in insert mode.

[Ken Bloom]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:18:38PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:59:36PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > In Vim,
> > 
> >    ncw
> > 
> > deletes n words and puts you in insert mode.  Is there a similar construct
> > for deleting n characters and leaving you in insert mode?
> > 
> > I'm using the Vim plugin for the Eclipse IDE.  Unfortunately, it doesn't
> > support visual mode, and something like "ncx" (which doesn't work)
> > along with "." would be almost as good.
> 
> ncl will do what you want. So would nxi (same number of characters...).

<n>xi can't be repeated with the . key because it's two commands.

BTW, I ususally type <n>cw or <n>cl as c<n>w or c<n>l because
commands like <n>i insert n times, and I would expect <n>cl to do
similarly even though in reality it doesn't.

--Ken

-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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