[Changed Subject as it no longer concerns emacs.] On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:14:20PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > I believe you would want to use the Ctrl-P & Ctrl-N mappings to navigate > the "command-line mode" history in vim so as to be in sync' with the > readline emacs defaults. > > In vim this can be achieved by adding: > > :cnoremap <C-P> <Up> > :cnoremap <C-N> <Down> > > to one's .vimrc. > > The only thing is that when you issue for instance the ":set paste" > command and need to retrieve later, with the arrow keys you can type > ":set" and do an <up arrow> and vim will retrieve the "paste" part of > the command and append to the ":set" that you typed. > > For some reason this does not appear to work when you remap <Up> to > Ctrl-P.. the previous ommand command is retrieved in its entirety and > whatever you typed beyond the ":" is ignored.
You could take this to vim_...@googlegroups.com http://googlegroups.com/group/vim_use/subscribe Warning! warning!, (1) it is a high volume list (2) vim is also availabe for windoze. > Sorry about sloppy post earlier.. hope this benefits s/o on the list. ^^^ (see P.S) We both got our modes mixed up. :( P.S. If you want to do a proper ellipsis (i.e … ), put this in your .vimrc ------------------------ snip --------- if has("digraphs") digraph ., 8230 " ellipsis (…) endif --------------------------- snap ---------- Then in "insert mode" Ctrl-K ., -- Chris. ====== I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen F Roberts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
