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Date:      Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:00:59 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vim question...
Message-ID:  <4ad871310906142000x6515bdau8020dafce579745e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090615024643.GA33420@thought.org>
References:  <20090615024643.GA33420@thought.org>

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Hi, Gary

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Gary Kline<kline@thought.org> wrote:
>
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0the main reason i don't use vim is because of its [u]ndo
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0command. =A0as most of you can understand, there are a who=
le slew
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0of times when i need to undo something. =A0too often in vi=
m,
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0hitting 'u' --- sometimes > once accidentally --- has resu=
lted in
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0a small disaster. =A0[[i have too many current/recent copi=
es of
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0my working files to do TOO much damage!]] =A0Anyway, is th=
ere a
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0means of setting the undo key to mimic vi/nvi?
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0thanks,
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0gary
>
>
>

I don't know what the keybindings for [u]ndo in Vim versus Vi/Nvi are,
but there was a recent thread about Vi keybindings for .vimrc.

Perhaps that'll provide some insight.

Cheers.

--=20
Glen Barber



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