From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-12-19T08:53:00+09:00
Subject: Re: OT:  vi useability question

Hello Marcel,

MMJ> On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:07:28AM +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:
>> i played a little bit with VI because i plan to add a compatibility
>> mode to ArachnoRuby and i found that returning from input to command
>> mode with escape breaks the VI rule of leaving your hands on the
>> keyboard.
>> 
>> I found that Control-I would be much better (and easy to remember)
>> then escape.
>> 
>> Is this just my personal problem or do others feel the same ?

MMJ> Other ways of leaving insert mode:

MMJ> Ctrl-[
MMJ> Ctrl-c   
MMJ> Ctrl-<Space>

Thanks,
but only  "Ctrl-c" works with my VIM 6.3.

And none of them are mentionend in the 3 key binding listings i found
on the web:

http://vh224401.truman.edu/~dbindner/mirror/vi-ref.pdf
http://www.selectorweb.com/vi.html
http://my.pages.de/vi-refcard.html

So can you please tell me what version of VI or VIM you use.

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