From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2132 invoked from network); 24 Mar 1998 20:37:37 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 24 Mar 1998 20:37:37 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA05415; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:34:58 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:31:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19980324213029.11346@willkuere.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 21:30:29 +0100 From: Thomas Koehler To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: vi command line editing References: <19980324195745.04331@willkuere.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <199803241938.TAA24973@taos.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199803241938.TAA24973@taos.demon.co.uk>; from Andrew Main on Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 07:38:27PM +0000 X-Operating-System: Linux willkuere 2.0.32 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by math.gatech.edu id PAA05316 Resent-Message-ID: <"axVQ-.0.FJ1.6W16r"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1421 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 07:38:27PM +0000, Andrew Main wrote: > 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. Right - but when you said "versions of vi", I thought of vi-clones :) > >> 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. Well, now it gets clear - right, repeated inserts don't work when moving around with the cursor keys - even not with vim. I don't know whether or not this should be considered a problem - cursor keys aren't intended to be used in insertmode anyways ;-) > -zefram CU, Thomas -- Thomas Köhler Email: jean-luc@picard.franken.de <>< WWW: http://home.pages.de/~jeanluc/ IRC: jeanluc LCARS --- Linux for Computers on All Real Starships