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From: Andrew Main <zefram@tao.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: vi command line editing
To: thomas@wi3d01.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Thomas Koehler)
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Thomas Koehler wrote:
>> The versions of vi that I've seen map arrow keys in insert
>> mode to "^[ka" and so on,
>
>Then you haven't seen vim yet (:-)

Ah, but vim is not vi.  Not by a long way.

>> which of course doesn't work with repeat counts.
>
>How should it work with repeat counts anyways? If you enter a number in
>input mode, it is inserted as text...

I meant a repeat count on the insert command.

-zefram