From: "Matt Wozniski" <godlygeek@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Weird Vi-mode behavior
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:09:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17393e3e0811031509p7d89beebw6e833bca02076b5c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <490F3B22.6070806@gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Matthieu Louvel de Monceaux wrote:
> Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>
>> 2008/11/3 Matthieu Louvel de Monceaux:
>>
>>> Anyway, I would like to know the reason of that vi-mode behavior,
>>> different from both vi editor and bash vi-mode behaviours ... maybe
>>> you could make me understand about that.
>>>
>>
>> It is not different from the vi editor. If you have the string "Hello
>> there" in vi, and the cursor is on the t in there and you enter insert
>> mode, then you cannot backspace further left than that. Maybe you are
>> used to vim where the default in many distros (probably) is to allow
>> backspacing past this point. You can ":set compatible" to get the
>> original vi behaviour.
>
> You're right.
> I got confused by too-much of Vim :)
> The keybindings given up there will make sense for me.
> Thanks all.
FWIW, Vim behaves the same way unless you change the 'backspace'
option to a non-default value. Your distro may change it, but Vim
ships with this option set to Vi-compatible behavior in both
compatible and non-compatible modes.
~Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-03 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-03 12:24 Matthieu Louvel de Monceaux
2008-11-03 12:37 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-11-03 12:56 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-11-03 17:34 ` Matthieu Louvel de Monceaux
2008-11-03 17:38 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-11-03 17:45 ` Matthieu Louvel de Monceaux
2008-11-03 17:50 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-11-03 17:55 ` Matthieu Louvel de Monceaux
2008-11-03 23:09 ` Matt Wozniski [this message]
2008-11-04 0:50 ` Matthieu Louvel de Monceaux
2008-11-03 17:39 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-11-03 13:12 ` Matthieu Louvel de Monceaux
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