From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1476 invoked from network); 24 Mar 1998 18:49:42 -0000 Received: from ns2.primenet.com.au (7795@203.24.36.3) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 24 Mar 1998 18:49:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 2998 invoked from network); 24 Mar 1998 18:49:40 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns2.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 24 Mar 1998 18:49:40 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA00610; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 13:40:51 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 13:37:00 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Main Message-Id: <199803241835.SAA24441@taos.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: vi command line editing To: stephen@memex.com (Stephen Marley) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:35:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <19980324180416.32604@bach.memex.co.uk> from "Stephen Marley" at Mar 24, 98 06:04:17 pm X-Loop: zefram@tao.co.uk X-Headers: in preparation X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"Xm_vg.0.88.Br_5r"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1418 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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