vis-backspace

A plugin to delete to the last tabstop when pressing backspace in vis.

Features

• Uses vis.options.tabwidth for versions of vis >= 0.9 (see note below). Up until that version no plugin could integrate with it, and required you to set the amount of spaces to delete by hand.
• Automatically aligns code to the tabstops. So a line of code indented with 7 spaces will be left with 4 after pressing backspace.
• Aligns even the cursor. This might not be important to you, but the cursor is also aligned to the first tabstop it encounters to its left.
• When vis.options is available, automatically disables itself when expandtab is false.

Installation

Clone this repository to where you install your plugins. (If this is your first plugin, running git clone https://github.com/milhnl/vis-backspace in ~/.config/vis/ will probably work).

Then, add require('vis-backspace') to your visrc.

Usage

Press backspace. Loading the library with the require call above will automatically bind to backspace in insert mode. If you want to use your own logic for setting the tab width: require('vis-backspace') returns a function with one argument, the number of spaces to delete. You can bind calling this function to backspace yourself.

Note on vis versions before 0.9

If you want the automatic detection of tabwidth, look at the vis-options-backport plugin. This will 'polyfill' that for older versions.