From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: List of evil ex commands? Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 16:23:49 -0600 Message-ID: <20151031161507195383866@bob.proulx.com> References: <56350BAA.2010700@kendallshaw.com> <87fv0qdei5.fsf@wanadoo.es> <563527DC.7060306@kendallshaw.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446330253 9574 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2015 22:24:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:24:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 31 23:24:08 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZseZD-00014y-OL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 23:24:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57186 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZseZC-00038c-MK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:24:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47185) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZseZ2-00038X-Lo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:23:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZseYx-0000Lo-Lp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:49343) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZseYx-0000Lh-Es for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:23:51 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB2321956 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 16:23:49 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2220C2DC52; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 16:23:49 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <563527DC.7060306@kendallshaw.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107882 Archived-At: Kendall Shaw wrote: > The command :ex is what I have been using in vi since 1982. In vi it > switches to ex (the line editor that came after ed) mode. What vi program are you using? I am using 'nvi' because it is the closest to the original BSD vi program that is available by free(dom) license. There if I start nvi as 'ex' then I am in ex mode. Typing in 'vi' (the ':' is already there in ex mode) then I enter visual mode. But in nvi visual mode typing in ":ex" does not turn off visual mode. Typing in ":" does however allow me to type in any ex command. This is sufficient for me. Supposedly in nvi the Q command exits visual mode and returns to ex mode but for whatever reason for me it says the Q command is unknown. This has never bothered me enough to pursue it further. I assume it is simply a bug in the nvi implementation. It hasn't been getting much love lately. Bob