Am 19.06.16 um 02:12 schrieb Lawrence D’Oliveiro:
The trouble with vim/vi/whatever, is that it doesn’t work like any
other editor on Earth.
Pull up any old GUI-based editor you like, for example Windows
(shudder) Notepad. If there are N characters in your file, then the
insertion point can be placed at N + 1 positions: in-between two
adjacent characters, or before the first character, or after the last
character.
But not vi/vim. It only lets you place your cursor *on* a character,
not *in-between* characters.
This is true if you use the text-mode version. I prefer gvim (actually
macvim on the mac) which feels much more like a modern editor. Once you
go to insert mode, you won't notice that it is special unless you hit
Escape. You can place the cursor in between characters, as you said, you
can backspace to join two lines together, you can push some buttons and
menu entries to save files, a standard dialog comes up to choose a file etc.
In the original vi, command mode was necessary to get this functionality
- even to move the cursor or delete a character - but with gvim/macvim
you get both a standard/modern interface in insert mode and the commands
if you need them.
That’s why you need two separate
insertion commands, insert-before and insert-after.
I rarely do "a" because pushing "i" and then cursor-right does the same
in vim, even in the text mode variant you can move the cursor after the
last character.
Christian
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