Re: wanted: viins-mode and digit argument with a,i,A and such

["Thomas Köhler" <jean-luc@picard.franken.de>]

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On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 07:34:43PM +0200,
Peter Stephenson <pws@cambridgesiliconradio.com> wrote:
> 
> > } > when i use bindkey -e, i can insert one character 10 times with
> > } > ESC 10 <character>.
> > } > 
> > } > With vi one normally uses something like 10i<character>.
> > } > This is not possible with ZSH ( bindkey -v set ).
> > } 
> > } If you are using 3.1, try a widget like [...]
> > 
> > I generally agree with the new philosophy of not adding things as builtins
> > that can be done as widgets, but this is so unbelievably trivial and so
> > completely general that I have no idea why we shouldn't do it:
> 
> This isn't quite how vi handles it, however.  It would wait till you hit
> escape, then insert everything you typed that many times.  That would need
> more work.  Plus in zsh there are other ways of exiting insert mode than
> returning to command mode --- what should happen on `return'?

the usual thing, plus the characters last inserted being the new
$LBUFFER  - hey, this would be cool (:-)

CU,
Thomas

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