[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS 151014: questions about locale settings and vi editing command's issues.

[Paul B. Henson]

> From: Davide Poletto
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 1:07 PM
>
> > The way this is written leads me to think you are pressing ESC and a at the
> > same time.
> 
> Yes, exactly as I do once in vi to enter into its INSERT mode on every Linux I've
> put my hands on.

As has been mentioned, ESC is a separate character, not a modifier key, and as such for the purposes of providing input to vim it is not possible to press them "simultaneously". vim gets either an ESC than an a, or an a then an ESC. You only need the ESC if you are in edit mode. But if you're already in edit mode, what's the point of ESC'ing to command mode then immediately we enter in edit mode :)?

> Are you meaning that I should use use keys combinations in a different ways
> (e.g. the "ESC" with "a" combination in the way you explained above) I'm used in
> Linux for years to let vi editor in OmniOS behaving the same way it behaves in
> Linux?

If you disable compatibility mode so vim acts like vim rather than vi you should have pretty much the identical experience as under linux.

Dan, any thoughts on disabling compatibility mode by default :)? Or would that be to un-Solaris like ;)?

Thanks…