Ctrl-w not working in insert mode

[HemorrhagiC940]

Hi there. It looks like ctrl h works fine in insert mode but ctrl w doesnt work in any application. Is that a feature that could be added?

Thanks!

Matt

[godbout]

interesting.

Hi there.

HELLO>

It looks like ctrl h works fine in insert mode but ctrl w doesnt work in any application.

that's because Control-H is a standard macOS keyboard shortcut 😂: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102650#text not kV's doing. by design kV doesn't touch Insert Mode (i.e normal macOS' behavior when it comes to insert text); only when you enter Normal Mode then kV takes over and does its magic. at least that was the initial idea. i didn't want to "break" macOS's normal usage, and people's expectations. so they would expect things to be different only when they enter Normal Mode. but now you make me pounder 🤔 more below.

Is that a feature that could be added?

so yeah it's not just a "new motion" to add, it's a whole paradigm shift. but i like the idea. at first thought this would probably come as an option, off by default. then if people want kV to take over a bit more aggressively over macOS then they can switch in on. nice.

no ETA tho. that's a big change. but yeah definitely feels like a right move for kV. for the time being you may wanna use a Karabiner complex modification: https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/?q=ctrl%20w#comfortable_ctrl_w_to_delete_backward_word

kV's integration with KE allows you to get your complex modifications active only on the Mode you want: https://docs.kindavim.app/integrations/custom-mappings although now you make me think that we may also need a kVinoremap 🤔 if you're going this way lemme know how it goes and if it can work the way you want. if some stuff are missing i should be able to add them before the rest of the whole shebang is implemented.

Thanks!

Welcome!

Matt

G(uillaume).