On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 7:06:57 PM UTC+5:30, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > Am 20.06.16 um 15:26 schrieb Random832: > > The point is that in vim you > > can't position the normal-mode cursor in such a way that inserted > > characters are inserted at the end of the line. > > But you can press i at the end of the line, then arrow-right, which > positions the cursor over the empty space after the line, and type. Try > it. In vim this works, because vim understands cursor keys. In original > vi not (there were no cursor keys on the old terminals). Usually, when > editing in vim, you don't leave the insert mode because you can use the > "special" keys as well as mouse actions to perform usual editing tasks. > Leaving insert mode is only necessary to run a command.
True and false (if one allows for vi = vim) In the default vi that comes with ubuntu (vi-tiny??) giving a arrow in insert mode enters all kinds of (control?) garbage. In (full) vim I guess its true -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list