How to Exit Vim

Re:How to Exit Vim by smabie on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @05:19PM (#21996382)

C-a is the worst default keybinding ever, since like, going to the beginning of a line is one of the most common operations.

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Re:How to Exit Vim by e12e on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @05:30PM (#21996467)

Well, not with proper key bindings ;) (set -o vi)

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Re:How to Exit Vim by ak217 on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @06:44PM (#21997013)

In the rest of the universe, going to the beginning/end of the line is mapped to the Home/End keys (fn+left/fn+right on Macs), and I do prefer it when my thing does things in ways that roughly correspond to how the rest of the universe does them if there's no compelling reason to do otherwise.

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Re:How to Exit Vim by eitland on Thursday January 09, 2020 @12:31AM (#21998795)

> (fn+left/fn+right on Macs)

When I used Mac in 2009 to 2012 it depended on the application you were using:

Some used fn+left/fn+right, some used CMD+left/CMD+right and I think ctrl and/or alt + arrow keys were an option too.

ctrl a/ctrl e would work everywhere I think but I didn't use those as they didn't work with shift to select to the start or end of the line.

As a keyboard type of person this was a major part of what drove me away from Mac despite its many advantages :-(

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