I laughed at the self-abusing "great advice", but it did work for me. Did you start a new Vim instance after saving .vimrc?
(Let me state again, it is a bad, silly advice. The tool should be there to help you. You shall not be treated as having to adapt to specific tools or machines.) On 3 May 2017 at 02:42, <vitale.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello! > > My system: > Mac OS 10.11.6 > > My version of Macvim: > Custom Version 8.0.525 (130) > > Vim version installed on my Mac is: > version 7.3 > > I am only the beginner. In one of the videos I watched the tutor > gives a great advice on switching off arrows key to avoid temptation > to use them when in an insert mode, for example. I tried to follow the > recommendation by entering a few lines (see below) into .vimrc file, > but nothing's changed - I am still able to play around with those arrows. > > I will be grateful for your help. > As I am using Macvim, I have opened .vimrc file by typing: > > :tabe ~/.vimrc > > Then I entered 8 lines: > > "Unmap the arrow keys > > no <down> <Nop> > no <left> <Nop> > no <right> <Nop> > no <up> <Nop> > > ino <down> <Nop> > ino <left> <Nop> > ino <right> <Nop> > ino <up> <Nop> > > Then I closed the file saving the content by typing: > :wq > > Then I checked if the content is saved by opening the file again: > :tabe ~/.vimrc > > and indeed everything is there. > > But when I enter insert mode in another file I am currently editing, > I can freely move around with those arrow keys while in the insert > mode, so the above lines didn't do the job. Please, help me to find > my mistake, and to correct it. > > Thank you very much! > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_mac" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vim_mac+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Yongwei Wu URL: http://wyw.dcweb.cn/ -- -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_mac" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_mac+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
