Can't remap in vim

Question

I want to have shift-tab behave as it does in other text editors. However it just won't work for me

syntax on 

:set number 

filetype plugin indent on 

set tabstop=4 

set shiftwidth=4

set expandtab

inoremap <S-tab> <C-d>

colo ron

Does anyone know why the remap won't work?

Edit: I already tried using the solution from Map shift-tab in vim to inverse tab in Vim . Also i'm using Ubuntu 14.04.

Answer 1

Use tabedit to open more than one file at a time. Tabedit should allow you open and navigate between files the way you do in other editors. That includes the <tab> and <shift + tab> behavior you are probably expecting in normal mode .

open files with:

:tabedit <filename>

auto complete will work on file names with the tabkey, too. Example:

:tabe[tab] s<[tab]/R[tab]

might produce something like:

:tabedit source/Readme.txt

You can use tabs in your macros, too. So copying information in complex ways between files becomes something you can quickly do on the fly with macros.

Answer 2

The linked solution works fine for me on Ubuntu 14.04, as well as using the commands in your question as my .vimrc .

Assuming you're storing the settings in your .vimrc file, did you reload the file after you made the change? You can do this by either relaunching vim, or running :source ~/.vimrc .

If that doesn't work, make sure you're in insert mode ( :i / :I ).

And if that doesn't work, make sure you aren't in paste mode ( :set nopaste )