vi Alternative Required

Eamonn McManus em at dce.ie
Thu Dec 20 10:31:22 AEST 1990


In comp.unix questions tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>:Has anyone got a set of 'map!' commands that implement arrow keys in
>:'vi' Input mode?
>
>Yes, I've mailed Richard a uuencoded copy.  I posted it very recently in
>comp.editors, so don't think I should post it again here.

As I (apparently) never tire of pointing out, it's not possible to get
arrow keys to work correctly using map! commands, though you can certainly
get better behaviour than what happens if you don't map them. :-)

You're likely to get your novice users coming in and saying `Why does it
move diagonally when I do up-arrow at the start of a line?'

,
Eamonn



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