From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Samuel Karl Peterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Equivalent of vim's o or O commands Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:06:18 -0800 Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: References: <3e30bd04-f387-4b8f-82bf-d088981089d1@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <8763x229jd.fsf@xmission.com> <6857c9c8-ede2-4fd1-9145-632a8a5c2985@v46g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> <34ae7355-4079-4484-ad8f-eff47217e56f@l16g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202424058 9380 80.91.229.12 (7 Feb 2008 22:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:40:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 07 23:41:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JNFQX-0001Gb-BP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:41:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNFQ4-00021l-K9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:40:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!ucdavis!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pc10.cs.ucdavis.edu Original-X-Trace: skeeter.ucdavis.edu 1202421978 5368 169.237.5.41 (7 Feb 2008 22:06:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ucdavis.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:06:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jaFimy/Lhw70YjwxSYJhCwfEkgc= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155937 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51314 Archived-At: Brian Adkins 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" > > 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. -- Sam Peterson skpeterson At nospam ucdavis.edu "if programmers were paid to remove code instead of adding it, software would be much better" -- unknown