From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 3 15:19:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09673 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 15:19:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09636 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 15:18:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id PAA04300 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 15:18:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma004298; Sun May 3 15:18:19 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id PAA03197 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 3 May 1998 15:18:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199805032218.PAA03197@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: vi insert mode To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 15:18:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When editing a file using "vi", if you press "i", then , i.e., go into insert mode and insert nothing, then the cursor ends up one character to the left of where you started. Actually this happens no matter how many characters you insert. Is there any way to turn off this non-intuitive behavior? Thanks, -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message