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From: steinbac@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Gunter Steinbach)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi - bug or not?
Message-ID: <62420015@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Jul 90 22:15:14 GMT
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Yes, it does the same on my HP-UX system.  And I suspect that is because
"s" is internally mapped to "c ", which does the same thing after all.

The same thing happens if you "map w ^F".  Try it, and you'll see it
doesn't let you do a "cw" anymore.

Die Moral von der Geschicht (the moral of the story):  Don't map your
basic movement commands to something that is not a basic movement
command.  Which ^F seems not to be because it is regarded internally as
a scroll/redraw of the screen rather than a movement.  By the same
token, you can not do a "c^E" etc.

I mapped the escape sequence that my HP keyboard's "next page" key
generates to "Lz+", so I can move pages without overlap and without
using my little finger.  Maybe you can do the same thing on your
keyboard.

	 Guenter Steinbach		gunter_steinbach@hplabs.hp.com