Re: How to directly enter visual mode from insert mode ?

2006-10-04 Thread Ivan Vecerina
Ivan Vecerina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : This is a problem I am occasionally stumbling on: : as I am done typing some new next in insert mode, I want : to highlight and erase some text ahead of the insert point. I'm adding i_Ctrl-O to my list of must use

How to directly enter visual mode from insert mode ?

2006-10-03 Thread Ivan Vecerina
This is a problem I am occasionally stumbling on: as I am done typing some new next in insert mode, I want to highlight and erase some text ahead of the insert point. Best case, I can type: ESClv But if I am at the end of the line, this won't work (the last character I inserted will be

Re: How to directly enter visual mode from insert mode ?

2006-10-03 Thread Jean-Rene David
* Ivan Vecerina [2006.10.03 12:15]: [...] Best case, I can type: ESClv [...] Is there an easy way to do so ? According to :h i_esc there is not builtin way to do this. But you could use a mapping: imap F8 esclv -- JR

Re: How to directly enter visual mode from insert mode ?

2006-10-03 Thread Yakov Lerner
On 10/3/06, Ivan Vecerina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a problem I am occasionally stumbling on: as I am done typing some new next in insert mode, I want to highlight and erase some text ahead of the insert point. Best case, I can type: ESClv But if I am at the end of the line, this won't

Re: How to directly enter visual mode from insert mode ?

2006-10-03 Thread Dasn
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 06:05:30PM +0200, Ivan Vecerina wrote: This is a problem I am occasionally stumbling on: as I am done typing some new next in insert mode, I want to highlight and erase some text ahead of the insert point. Best case, I can type: ESClv I prefer using C-Ov or C-\C-Ov

Re: How to directly enter visual mode from insert mode ?

2006-10-03 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 12:05:30PM EDT, Ivan Vecerina wrote: This is a problem I am occasionally stumbling on: as I am done typing some new next in insert mode, I want to highlight and erase some text ahead of the insert point. Best case, I can type: ESClv But if I am at the end of the

Re: How to directly enter visual mode from insert mode ?

2006-10-03 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:55:31PM EDT, Dasn wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 06:05:30PM +0200, Ivan Vecerina wrote: This is a problem I am occasionally stumbling on: as I am done typing some new next in insert mode, I want to highlight and erase some text ahead of the insert point. Best