Re: PATCH: default vi-mode key bindings

[richo <richo@psych0tik.net>]

On 05/12/14 09:46 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:
>On 12/05/2014 05:26 AM, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
>
>>The type of person that would affect would need to like vi-style
>>editing enough to use it in zsh without having ever been tempted
>>into learning vim. Plenty of people use vi for quick edits from the
>>terminal
>
>Pardon my absolute ignorance about what you guys are talking about.
>Can someone give me some idea?  vi is an editor that Martians like,
>because it helps if you have three arms, yes?  And Venusians like
>emacs because the suckers on their tentacles can hit Ctrl+Alt+Esc+L+A
>very easily.  And they have wars over it.  vi has insert mode and
>command mode and such.  Ok, but is any of that actually used at the
>command line?  Does anyone need/use 'command mode' when typing a
>simple command?
>
>    $ grep "The falcon cannot hear the falconer;" /Yeats/*
>
>What would one do with command mode there?  Editing a novel, of
>course, but a command line?  Or does this mean that zsh somehow butts
>itself right in to vi so that when editing a novel, 'vi-style' as set
>by zsh is somehow active?  Is that polite?  And then there's vim mode
>too but that's different from vi mode?  I'm missing something
>fundamental here.

Please keep the holy wars off list.

Yes, vi mode gets used. I use command mode a lot (These fingers only know how
to vi). The mere existance of the feature and the people working on it should
be self evident.