From: Andrew Main <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: stephen@memex.com (Stephen Marley)
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: vi command line editing
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:35:32 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199803241835.SAA24441@taos.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19980324180416.32604@bach.memex.co.uk> from "Stephen Marley" at Mar 24, 98 06:04:17 pm
Stephen Marley wrote:
>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?
Sorry, I didn't mean it to be taken as a complaint. While there can
be said to be an insert mode, it is an input-reading mode, not really
comparable to the command mode. Movement *can't* work in insert mode,
because the insert mode is merely where a long command argument is
being read. The versions of vi that I've seen map arrow keys in insert
mode to "^[ka" and so on, which of course doesn't work with repeat counts.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-03-24 18:49 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
1998-03-24 18:35 ` Andrew Main [this message]
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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