On 2008-12-08, juner wrote: > Is there a way to make the arrow keys in vim/gvim act exactly like > gedit or other typical windows editors? What I want are: > > 1. When I press the left key, the cursor will of course move left; but > when it reach the beginning of a line, it stops, and it won't move to > the above line. Sometimes this can be quite inconvenient. However, > this problem can be partly solved by setting "set whichwrap > +=<,>,h,l" . By "partly solved", I mean this only applies to wrapped > lines; when the cursor reaches the beginning of a vim "true" line, it > won't move any more.
It works fine for me using vim 7.2.22. If I execute :set ww+=<,> and move the cursor to any of the lines in your preceding paragraph, the left arrow will move the cursor to the beginning of the line and then to the end of the preceding line. Try starting vim like this: vim -N -u NONE -c 'set ww+=<,>' some_text_file The left and right arrow keys should behave as you want. If they don't, tell us which version of vim you're using, on which platform, and exactly what behavior you're observing. If they do, then you have something in your ~/.vimrc or in a plugin that's interfering with the behavior of those keys. > 2. I always set vim to wrap lines automatically, which means a long > line will appear several lines in the editor. When I press the > "up"/"down" key, the cursor will move to the above or the below line. > Here the word "line" means the vim "true" line, not the apparent lines > shown on the screen. This is inconvenient to me. Even if I have set > "set whichwrap+=<,>,h,l", the performance won't change. Try this: nmap <Up> gk nmap <Down> gj Regards, Gary --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
