We call them normal and command mode in the manpage under bind-key so it
should probably change that to insert and command.

On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 12:43:05PM -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 15:51:32 +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> > All the vi-copy defaults are for normal mode (insert mode), so
> > presumably this comment should be different.
> 
> In vi, 'normal' is the command mode (inserting happens in 'insert'
> mode).
> 
> > There is nothing stopping people binding commands in either mode though
> > (and for all I know people do) so not sure we should prevent it like
> > this.
> 
> It's prevented by not handling any of the typical commands used in
> normal mode (substitute, end-of-word, delete-word, etc.). Allowing it is
> pretty half-hearted since only 'X', '^H', and 'd', would work from the
> default table anyways.

But the user could bind them to whatever they like if they wanted.

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