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

[Theo Schlossnagle]

And... we always have ed for when terminals go bad.  Then you get used to
it and to most surgical editing via ed.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:

> Some have suggested that we include old UCB vi by default.   ;)
>
> We'll likely keep compatibility mode by default for the foreseeable future.
>
> Dan
>
> Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)
>
> On Apr 16, 2015, at 5:08 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:
>
> >> 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…
> >
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