From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 12:35:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4974037B404 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:35:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-65.56.136.99.dial1.chicago1.level3.net ([65.56.136.99] helo=there) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16j4bb-0001cW-00; Thu, 07 Mar 2002 12:35:16 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bob Giesen To: "Seth Hieronymus" , Subject: Re: vi question Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:34:51 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: 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 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. -- "Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message