When running in ex-mode it sets itself in vi-mode. When running in vi-mode it's basically an alias to the ex and edit commands. This means that an uppercase first letter splits the screen in two.
Personally I find this rather confusing, since we overload the function to mean two different things based on the mode we're in. Does anyone actually use the visual command instead of edit? martijn@ On 02/03/18 08:20, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 08:17:11PM -0700, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: >> trondd writes: >>> The manpage for vi(1) has a small error for the :Visual/:visual command. >>> The >>> 'V' can be capital or lowercase, followed by an 'i' and optionally 'sual'. >>> Bu >>> t >>> the manpage shows the command as [Vi]i[sual] instead of [Vv]i[sual]. >> >> This reveals a problem with the manpage. Everywhere else [] refers to >> optional parts of a command, but in the EX COMMANDS section, [] does >> double duty both to mark multiple valid characters as in glob(7) and to >> signify optional parts of the command. >> >> Even in EX COMMANDS [] means "optional" only except for a few commands: >> [Ee][dit], [Ee]x, [Ff]g, [Nn][ext], [Pp]rev[ious], [Tt]a[g], and now >> [Vv]i[sual]. >> >> For readability I think these should be separate lines. Doubly so >> because the capitalized commands actually behave differently as >> explained in the reference documentation, and NOT explained in the >> manpage... >> >> This does leave open the question of how the usage strings in ex_cmd.c >> should change, and whether the code there should be rearchitected so >> that, e.g., "edit" and "Edit" can have different usage strings. >> >> -- >> Anthony J. Bentley >> > > morning. > > can you explain how uppercase and lowercase variants differ? it could be > that the simplest fix is not to list the uppercase variant (e.g. Visual) > and just explain in a separate paragraph those few commands that have > the variant. > > but that depends on what the difference is. > > jmc >
