Re: PATCH: default vi-mode key bindings

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

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.