Re: vi mode question.

[Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 12/06/2014 02:09 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>> Anyone who knows vi(m) will already know this, but for Ray et al.:
> ...
>
> Thanks for that.  I wonder why there isn't (*if* there isn't) a compromise:
> All the most basic editing/moving primitives working in insert mode
> like emacs or
> the (what DOS/Windows people would call) 'normal' human editors, but
> still having a command mode for the complexities (where emacs goes
> nuts with all those combinations). You'd mostly be in 'normal' mode, but
> when you needed to do some heavy lifting, 'command mode' would still
> be there.  I haven't tried vi for a long time, I should try again.

bindkey -e
bindkey '^[' vi-cmd-mode

Effectively combines emacs as insert-mode with vi as command mode.

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