From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 12:49: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A793437B41D for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:48:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3CB7D901A00; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:48:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:48:09 -0500 From: mpd To: Bob Giesen Cc: Seth Hieronymus , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi question Message-ID: <20020307154809.A1642@rochester.rr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from BobGiesen@earthlink.net on Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:34:51PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:34:51PM -0600, Bob Giesen wrote: > On Thursday 07 March 2002 01:11 pm, Seth Hieronymus wrote: > > Is there any way to stop vi from going back into command mode when > > I arrow over to the first column (while in insert mode)? > > I don't think so. You could use Vim, instead; this seems to work > as you'd like it to. > More to the point is that you're using arrow keys in vi, which is > optimized for fast typing (little wasted motion and little need for > Ctrl- or Alt-key combinations). Personally, I find it faster to just > switch between command and insert modes and use the h,j,k, and l keys > instead of the arrow keys... Ymmv, of course, but you might want to > give it a chance, if you haven't already. Why not just press '0' in command mode to get to the first column? mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "AND IN CONCLUSION TECHNOLOGY CHANGES THE FLAVOR OF ARCTIC CIRCLE CANDY AND MAKES MILK GO SOUR!!!" - Mr. Nutty from "A TOWN MEETING" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message