Re: Weird Vi-mode behavior

["Matt Wozniski" <godlygeek@xxxxxxxxx>]

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