On 06/18/2016 06:50 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 06/18/2016 06:12 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> But not vi/vim. It only lets you place your cursor *on* a character, >> not *in-between* characters. That’s why you need two separate >> insertion commands, insert-before and insert-after. And one of those >> has the interesting side effect where, if you exit insertion mode >> without inserting anything, it doesn’t put you back in the same >> position as before. Why?
Nevermind I see what you are talking about. Doesn't bother me though. >> As to why you need insertion commands at all, that’s another >> thing... In it's day, the scriptability of ed depended on this feature. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
