I agree with Ben... I use vim like him. 2009/2/12 Ben Fritz <[email protected]>
> > > > On Feb 12, 2:26 am, soundphed <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there, I am wondering if it might be neat to be able to move around > > in insert mode via the h,j,k,l keys, as in normal mode. > > Say like with a modifier key, so you could hold down <ctrl> and hjkl > > would then move the cursor while keeping you in insert mode. > > > > Does something of this nature already exist in vim? > > If not, how does one move the cursor left,right,up,down while in > > insert mode? > > I personally avoid moving around in insert mode as much as possible. > If I need to move any more than a single word away, or move to a > different line, I ALWAYS leave insert mode first. To me, "insert mode" > is less of a mode of operation than it is an incomplete command. I > view "itypesometext<esc>" as a single command, not entering a mode, > typing text, then leaving the mode. This actually agrees with the way > Vim treats it, in a way...if you use 'u' to undo after an insert, it > will remove all text inserted since you pressed the 'i' key in the > first place. Basically the entire insertion is treated as a single > operation. > > > -- ---------------------------------------------- Roberto Miura Honji LAS - Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas Engenharia de Computação - 2006 Instituto de Computação - UNICAMP email: [email protected] (principal) email: [email protected] msn: [email protected] ------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
