Re: Weird Vi-mode behavior

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

Matt Wozniski wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Indeed I changed it by

set backspace=indent,eol,start

where start is actually the one needed to backspace further left
the spot where we entered the insert mode.

Cheers,


M. Louvel de Monceaux