I used Vi for many years (on Unix) then stopped, but need it again (on
Windows 10). There are couple of things that I used to be able to do in my
sleep but no longer master, and the online information is hard to use (it
talks about very complicated things but I was not able to find simple
answers to simple questions).
1. Backspace in insert mode, over some characters, gives a special
character instead of erasing. I remember that this was a feature, not a bug
– a way to type special characters when they were troublesome to produce
otherwise. I don’t need that facility, which is very annoying; I just want
backspace to erase. What should I do? My settings file (_vimrc) currently
has
set bs=2
2. How do I represent ESC in a macro (my name for the result of a “map”)? I
want to define something like
:map v iSOME TEXT<Esc>
so that when I type “v” it will insert SOME_TEXT at the current position
and then escape (get out of insert mode). But I no longer know how to type
what appears above as <Esc> when entering the macro. I remembered various
incantations involving CTRL-V or CTRL-G but they do not seem to work.
Very basic stuff, I just forgot.
Help will be much appreciated.
With best regards,
-- Bertrand Meyer
New book just out: *Handbook of Requirements and Business Analysis*,
Springer, 2022
A treatise and textbook on requirements, see https://se.ethz.ch/requirements
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