On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:58:43PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > | Control-W to toggle wrap mode (which would be toggle paste mode in > > | Vim) > > another approach could be > :set pastetoggle=<F9> > and use F9 whether in insert mode or not...
Oh, that's perfect. Thanks. Any reason not to map that to ^W so I don't have to remember which editor I'm using? > > > | Control-K to kill a link. > > like html? as in all text between < and >? (see :help html)a No, that's my bad typing. I meant kill a line. I find nano nice for 95% of what I'm doing in mail, type, re-justify (^J) and delete lines (^K). But that other 5% that vim gives me is really nice. So I'm really trying to use vim as if it was nano. Still, I feel like I'm using a lot more keystrokes using vim than nano. I need to learn a lot more. > > > | And maybe Control-U to undo > > > > ^U is still there. > > eh? by default, ^U scrolls up half a screen. lower-case "u" is > the default 'undo' for vi (and vim). and ^R is the default re-do. That's what my help says, too. But Ctrl+U right now is deleting the current line. Here's something that bugs me. I often type something like this text and then below I want to paste in some text. So, I move down a line, then middle click the mouse to paste in. But then I forgot to turn on paste mode, so I hit Esc and "u" to undo, but it then undoes not only what I just pasted but all the text I just typed. I guess I need to learn to undo just the current paragraph. I suppose vim (not gvim) has no idea when I'm typing vs pasting with the middle button. > *nix is customizable. if you work hard enough, you might munge > up enough keybindings in vim to fool the casual observer into > thinking he's using wordstar. > > but then you'll also surprise every vi user on the block into > not being able to use your editor. and WHEN YOU'RE AWAY FROM > HOME, you'd have to have your settings with you everywhere you > go, or be rather confusedly lost. > > might wanna consider creating custom keystrokes for your own > shortcuts and macros, but go ahead and utilize the features vim > has 'out of the box' without redefining everything. I could not agree more. I just need to become efficient enough with vim to feel like it's not more work than using another editor. With nano when I add some text to a paragraph and need to re-justify I just hit ^J. In Vim I'm hitting Esc+g+q+a+p and then I forget to move back into insert mode and start typing. Hard to believe that's how others are using vim. > :) > > just a thought. Which I appreciate. I need all the help I can get! ;) -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]