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From: jerry@talos.npri.com (Jerry Gitomer)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: line moving while in insert mode
Keywords: line moving while in insert mode
Message-ID: <2074@talos.npri.com>
Date: 26 Apr 91 18:05:17 GMT
References: <6219@beryl12.UUCP> <1991Apr22.031302.5020@cbfsb.att.com> <2042@talos.npri.com>
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jerry@talos.npri.com (Jerry Gitomer) writes:

|rosen@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (steven.b.rosen) writes (in response to another
|article):

||	The only movement I know of while in insert mode is ^W (control W).
||	This will back you up one word. You can type this as many times as
||	you want, but you cant back up beyond your initial insert point. If
||	you find any commands, please post them here.


|The following map commands allow me to use my cursor keys to move around
|while in insert mode.  (If you right arrow to the last character in a line
|you will get bounced out of insert mode, but otherwise they work as
|expected.)

|map! OA ka
|map! OB ja
|map! OC lli
|map! OD i

	Oops!  I should have realized that either vi or the mailer would
	nail me on the escape characters I copied from in my .exrc.  What I
	meant to have you see is:

		map! ^[0A ^[ka
		map! ^[0B ^[ja
		map! ^[0C ^[lli
		map! ^[0D ^[i

	The easy way of entering the map commands is to do as follows:

	map!  SPACE   CTL-V UP-ARROW   SPACE     CTL-V ESC ka
	map!  SPACE   CTL-V DOWN-ARROW   SPACE     CTL-V ESC ja
	map!  SPACE   CTL-V RIGHT-ARROW   SPACE     CTL-V ESC lli 
	map!  SPACE   CTL-V LEFT-ARROW   SPACE     CTL-V ESC i

||	PS: Does anyone have any constructive comments about the "elvis"
||		gnu vi clone? I'd like to have vi on my pc, and free is a good
||		price. But I dont want to waste my time downloading & compiling
||		if it's not worth it.

|I am using elvis and like it.  I use vi throughout the day and find that
|elvis is close enough to vi to fool me.  A bonus, IMHO, is that since I
|have the source I can add (or strip out) features as the spirit moves me.

-- 
Jerry Gitomer at National Political Resources Inc, Alexandria, VA USA
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