Re: vi command line editing

[Thomas Koehler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 06:35:32PM +0000, Andrew Main wrote:

> The versions of vi that I've seen map arrow keys in insert
> mode to "^[ka" and so on,

Then you haven't seen vim yet (:-)

> which of course doesn't work with repeat counts.

How should it work with repeat counts anyways? If you enter a number in
input mode, it is inserted as text...

(anyways, in vim, you can hit ^O<count>[hjkl] for movements - in
general, you can use ^O<commandmode-command> in insertmode in vim, and
you are back in insertmode afterwards)

> -zefram

CU,
Thomas [always vimming]

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