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>:
>   
>> Indeed that sounds logical.
>> Same thing than
>>
>> if (($+terminfo[kdch1])); then
>>   bindkey -M viins $terminfo[kdch1] delete-char
>> fi
>>
>> If I well understood.
>>     
>
> yep.
>
>   
>> 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.

M. Louvel de Monceaux