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From: dattier@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi--backspace past beg-of-line
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.211456.16556@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 91 21:14:56 GMT
References: <21841@oolong.la.locus.com> <1012@TALOS.UUCP>
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jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer) wrote in <1012@TALOS.UUCP>:

| Yes, using the :map facility of vi.  I picked this trick up
| from Tom Christenson's articles here.  Just do the following
| (I used the four arrow keys since most of us have modern
| keyboards):
| 
| :map! ^[0A ^[ka
| :map! ^[0B ^[ja
| :map! ^[0C ^[lli
| :map! ^[0D ^[i

^[lli?  That won't work aif you started out at the end of the line.  True,
cursoring right from the end of a line makes no sense, but if you bump into
the right arrow key you'll be in trouble.

Try :map! ^[0C ^[la instead.  Tom Christiansen should have known that ...
unless Tom Christenson is some other person.

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