Re: Equivalent of vim's o or O commands

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Samuel Karl Peterson wrote:
> Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@gmail.com> on Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:44:17 -0800
> (PST) didst step forth and proclaim thus:
> 
>> My first attempt didn't go so well. I chose viper level 5.
>>
>> 1) V did not put me into line visual mode, instead it attempted to
>> "Find file in other window".
>>
>> 2) v did not put me into visual mode, instead it attempted to "Find
>> file"

Looks like there is something called viper-visual-mode in vimpulse.el. I 
wonder why that does not work?

>> 3) Neither C-c nor C-[ took me out of insert mode back to normal mode.
>> There's no way I'm reaching for ESC each time.
> 
> If you run Emacs in a terminal window (emacs -nw), C-[ should work for
> esc.  C-c works in lower levels (though not in ex).
> 
> Viper emulates system V vi, not vim, and incompletely at that.  Things
> like :set nu don't work.  vimpulse.el seems to be all the rage these
> days.
>