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From: Stephen Marley <stephen@memex.com>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: vi command line editing
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:04:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980324180416.32604@bach.memex.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199803241707.RAA23049@taos.demon.co.uk>; from Andrew Main on Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 05:06:59PM +0000

Quoting Andrew Main (zefram@tao.co.uk):
> Stephen Marley wrote:
> >You see, my fingers are tuned to using the older vi's (eg SunOS's) where
> >movement using the arrow keys doesn't work in insert mode.
> 
> Arrow keys don't properly `work' in insert mode in *any* vi, since there
> is no such thing as an insert `mode'.

Why are you being so pedantic?  Should I have said `input' rather than
`insert'?  Why is it then that if I do :se showmode it says `insert'?
What's wrong with saying movement doesn't `work'?

What terminology could I have used that wouldn't have irked you? 

Anyway, there is such a thing as an insert `mode', I have the sources
from Bill Joy and Mark Horton's ex version 3 and there are plenty of
references to insert mode (it's a terminal attribute) and the Vim
sources use this term in exactly the way I do. So there! (sticks out
tongue).

Thanks for the help anyway.

-- 
stephen@memex.com


  reply	other threads:[~1998-03-24 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-03-24 15:14 Stephen Marley
1998-03-24 15:46 ` Andrew Main
1998-03-24 16:26   ` Stephen Marley
1998-03-24 17:06     ` Andrew Main
1998-03-24 18:04       ` Stephen Marley [this message]
1998-03-24 18:35         ` Andrew Main
1998-03-24 18:57           ` Thomas Koehler
1998-03-24 19:38             ` Andrew Main
1998-03-24 20:30               ` Thomas Koehler
1998-03-24 22:05                 ` HPUX (was Re: vi command line editing) Shawn Leas
1998-03-24 23:22                   ` Shawn Leas
1998-03-25 10:22                   ` Andrew Main
1998-03-25 16:01                     ` Dan Nelson
1998-03-25 16:45                     ` Bart Schaefer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-01-28  0:18 VI command line editing Vidiot
1997-01-28 15:10 ` Zefram
1997-01-28 16:27   ` Bart Schaefer
1997-01-28 16:31     ` Zefram

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