Re: cursor moves back with ESC

2006-10-16 Thread Charles E Campbell Jr
Lev Lvovsky wrote: I've never actually figured out why upon after typing in insert mode, the cursor moves back one character to the left after pressing escape. What's the reason behind this, and is there any way to turn it off? To best understand this, one needs to use console vim.

Re: cursor moves back with ESC

2006-10-16 Thread Yakov Lerner
On 10/16/06, Lev Lvovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've never actually figured out why upon after typing in insert mode, the cursor moves back one character to the left after pressing escape. What's the reason behind this, and is there any way to turn it off? IIRC there was a post some

Re: cursor moves back with ESC

2006-10-16 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Oct 16, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Seems a reasonable choice, to me. Any choice would be arbitrary. Now, to turn it off: don't use insert. Use append. if you mean 'a' as opposed to 'i' for the modes, it still does the same thing in my version. thanks, -lev

Re: cursor moves back with ESC

2006-10-16 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Lev Lvovsky wrote: On Oct 16, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Seems a reasonable choice, to me. Any choice would be arbitrary. Now, to turn it off: don't use insert. Use append. if you mean 'a' as opposed to 'i' for the modes, it still does the same thing in my version.

Re: cursor moves back with ESC

2006-10-16 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Yakov Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/06, Lev Lvovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've never actually figured out why upon after typing in insert mode, the cursor moves back one character to the left after pressing escape. What's the reason behind this, and is there

Re: cursor moves back with ESC

2006-10-16 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Oct 16, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Peter Hodge wrote: You can also try: inoremap ESC ESCl which will work a little quicker in a terminal Vim. works great, thanks! -lev