Vim
Created: 2015-02-28
Status: notes; belief: possible
I’m still learning more about Vim even today, even though I started using it back in 2011 (or even before that). One thing I learned really recently is that Vim has very sophisticated ex mode features. I had always been frustrated by the fact that ex mode seemed way too limited, since I couldn’t even get bash-style keys like <C-a> to go to the beginning of the line to work. But it turns out I was wrong; see :h cmdline.txt for more, as well as :h usr_20.txt, which is referenced in the first help page. But for instance, you can type q: to enter essentially insert mode within ex mode, which allows you to do regular Vi keys to edit commands. I also learned that <C-b> is the right way to go to the beginning of a line in ex mode; you can change this with cnoremap <C-a> <C-b> too though; also see :h emacs-keys to make keybindings more “sane”.
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