[TriLUG] God, how I hate thee, VIM

[gregbrown at mindspring.com]

Ah, good point.  I'm feeling *a little* better.

After trying to figure out what was going wrong I found the following 
odd scenario:

vi ./file
(auto repeat is NOT on)
(save file)

chmod 755 ./file
vi ./file
(auto repeat IS on)

Strange.

If I am editing a file with the executable bits set and I enter interactive 
mode and write a comment, then hit enter VIM automatically places a "#" 
at the start of the next line.

In order to stop having "#"s at the start of every line I have to:

1. hit escape
2. and rather than appending to the end of that line I have to use the "j"
key to drop to a new which seems to exit auto repeat.

I guess I just have to get used to using this wonderful "feature" and 
overcome 10 years of escaping out of interactive mode then hitting "a" 
then "enter" to get to a "clean" newline.

I guess I freaked out a bit. :)  Heh... work is fun.

Greg


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com>
Sent: Oct 21, 2004 1:12 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] God, how I hate thee, VIM

What do you mean by a "POS auto-repeat thing" ... what are the exact
symptoms/problems?  I realize your frustration but we need a little
clearer description..

Also feel free to drop by IRC, #trilug on irc.freenode.net, as a place
to vent frustration too :-)

Jeremy

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 13:06, gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:
> I'm running Knoppix 3.4 (I don't have a 3.6 cd here) and I'm having 
> to write scripts.  VIM for some $#@#%^&* reason, VIM has a a POS 
> auto-repeat thing built in with no clear way to shut off what is simply 
> the MOST ANNOYING THING SINCE THE BLINK TAG!!!!!!
> 
> Man page = no help.  Google = no help yet.  
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