Re: Weird Vi-mode behavior

[Matthieu Louvel de Monceaux <glory69@gmail.com>]

Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> 2008/11/3 Matthieu Louvel de Monceaux <glory69@gmail.com>:
>   
>> Thank you for your nice piece of information.
>> You want me to put those bindings in my zshrc file ?
>>
>> But i don't understand that :
>>
>> (($+terminfo[kdch1])) &&
>>
>> You said that it maps delete-char to the char sent by the delete key.
>> Is it the role of the '&&' ?
>>     
>
> a && b is like if a; then b; fi, but shorter, and only works if b is a
> single statement (or is in {}, but then you're better off with an if
> probably).
>
>   
Indeed that sounds logical.
Same thing than

if (($+terminfo[kdch1])); then
    bindkey -M viins $terminfo[kdch1] delete-char
fi

If I well understood.

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.


M. Louvel de Monceaux