<S-BS> doesn't work. about delimitmate

[alanchrt]

I'm getting the same behavior. Glad you already noticed it!

[Raimondi]

Have you tried with the current github files?

[alanchrt]

Ah, no I haven't. I'll give it a shot..

[alanchrt]

Hmmm.

With the current source (and Vim 7.2), I still experience this behavior:

def test(|) => => def test

Am I misunderstanding how it's intended to work, or is this weird?

[Raimondi]

That was weird :)

I just committed some changes, could you see if it works for you now?

[alanchrt]

Dang. No dice. Are you able to reproduce it at all?

I get the same behavior still. I just tested it on another machine that didn't already have delimitMate installed, just to make sure it wasn't an installation issue.. same thing. First machine was Debian, and the other Ubuntu, both Vim 7.2.

[Raimondi]

I could reproduce it before commiting the last changes, although just in a special situation, but I can't reproduce it now, neither in MacOSX nor Ubuntu. I moved my ~/.vim to ~/.vimold and created a new .vim folder just with delimitMate. It'd be nice if you could take the time to do something like that or just try this (use vim instead if you prefer):

gvim -N -u NONE -U NONE
:source ~/.vim/autload/delimitMate.vim
:source ~/.vim/plugin/delimitMate.vim

and try again.

Thanks for helping me with this issue ;)

[alanchrt]

Ah! Figured it out. Tried it again on a different Ubuntu box, and still got the same result, so I looked into it more.

Check this out:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key#Mapping_problems

I tried it in gvim, and it works like a charm.

Doing the <C-K> thing in insert mode to check a mapping, here is what I get in each environment:

• gvim: Shift+Backspace => <S-BS>
• gnome-terminal: Shift+Backspace => <BS>
• xterm: Shift+Backspace => <BS>
• rxvt: Shift+Backspace X 2 => ^H
• aterm: Shift+Backspace X 2 => ^H

I don't really want to install KDE or XFCE to try some of their terminals, but some of them might actually work too.

So, I guess the problem is kind of on my end for not using a terminal that supports <S-BS> mapping. Maybe just throw a warning in the README for terminal users in case they face the same issue.

Do you have a terminal of choice that you've been able to use to map <S-BS>?

As a test, I added imap <S-Left> <S-BS> to my .vimrc (I wouldn't actually use that specific mapping in practice... I'll find something), and sure enough, I got the following result:

def test(|) => <S-Left> => def test(|

!!

[alanchrt]

I think I'll settle on this one, or switch to a terminal that supports <S-BS>:

imap ^\ <S-BS>

[Raimondi]

I work mostly on MacVim, that's why I couldn't reproduce the problem, now I tried with the mac terminal and <S-BS> doesn't work.

I'll put a note on the docs about this issue. Thanks for helping me with this.

[alanchrt]

No problem. Glad to have it all sorted out!

[roachsinai]

Hi @Raimondi thanks for your plugin, what you posted in the doc told me that may not work in some terminal.

But what you posted sames there is a way to make it by delimitMate#JumpAny(),

NOTE that this will not usually work when using Vim from the
terminal, see 'delimitMate#JumpAny()' below to see how to fix it.

And after read I did't find how to let it work.

Thanks for any hints!