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From: em@dce.ie (Eamonn McManus)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi Alternative Required
Message-ID: <candelabra@dce.ie>
Date: 23 Dec 90 18:23:49 GMT
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FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Nicole Delbecque & Paul Bijnens) write(s):
>The convention is: cursor-movement is command mode.
>Then map cursor movement like this:
>
>  map  ^[[A k
>  map! ^[[A ^[k
>  etc...

When you end an insertion vi backs up one character unless it is already
at the start of the line.  So the above map! will cause vi to move up and
to the left, except at the start of the line where it will work correctly.
Of course if you change the RHS to ^[kl it will work everywhere except at
the start of the line (and when the line above is too short).

,
Eamonn