From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian Adkins Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Equivalent of vim's o or O commands Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:07:06 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6857c9c8-ede2-4fd1-9145-632a8a5c2985@v46g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> References: <3e30bd04-f387-4b8f-82bf-d088981089d1@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <8763x229jd.fsf@xmission.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202337636 28677 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2008 22:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:40:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 06 23:40:57 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 1JMswr-00024a-9k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:40:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMswO-0005sw-P4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:40:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v46g2000hsv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 56 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.209.204.112 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1202335627 17743 127.0.0.1 (6 Feb 2008 22:07:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:07:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v46g2000hsv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.209.204.112; posting-account=Uust-woAAAAfaTc8iUxK0_NIe578kqTZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155896 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:51272 Archived-At: On Feb 5, 7:49 pm, Jason Earl wrote: > Brian Adkins writes: > > On Feb 5, 2:22 pm, Brian Adkins wrote: > >> I would like to have the equivalent of vim's o or O commands in emacs. > >> The o command will open a new line below the cursor and position the > >> cursor properly indented (if autoindent is on). The O command does the > >> same but opens the line above the cursor. > > >> In emacs, C-o will open a line above the cursor if the cursor is at > >> the beginning of the line (but won't properly indent), but splits the > >> line if the cursor is within some text. > > >> This is such a common operation for me, that I would like to bind it > >> to a simple combination instead of requiring C-e C-j. > > >> I failed to find a good "emacs for vim users" reference on Google. > >> There are some partial ones that are helpful, but I would like a more > >> complete reference as I consider transitioning from vim to emacs. If > >> anyone knows of one, I'd appreciate a link. > > >> Thanks, > >> Brian Adkins > > > I should have searched the group archives first. I found a > > satisfactory solution from a 2002 posting :) > > > (defun bja-open-line-below () > > (interactive) > > (end-of-line) > > (open-line 1) > > (next-line 1) > > (indent-according-to-mode)) > > > (defun bja-open-line-above () > > (interactive) > > (beginning-of-line) > > (open-line 1) > > (indent-according-to-mode)) > > > (global-set-key [?\C-o] 'bja-open-line-below) > > (global-set-key [?\M-o] 'bja-open-line-above) > > > Being able to customize emacs with elisp is one of the main reasons > > I'm considering a switch (that and being able to use emacs/slime for > > Lisp programming). > > > Brian > > One of the things that you might consider trying is viper-mode. That > way you don't have to give up your typist friendly keystrokes just to > use Emacs' lisp-scriptable goodness. > > Jason Thanks. I did try viper mode briefly, but it seemed nothing like vim (maybe it's more similar to vi), so I gave up on it.