Vimpulse and vim-mode

Mon Feb 28 08:19:42 CET 2011

Am Samstag, 26. Februar 2011 schrieb Christoph LANGE:

> My reason for saying that is that I'm mostly used to Vimpulse
> (running in Viper's "expert mode" 5, i.e. with full access to Emacs
> keybindings). When I once gave a quick try to vim-mode, I realized
> that some things work differently.  For example: IIRC C-f in Vimpulse
> does "page down" by default, whereas in vim-mode it does something
> else.  C-e in Vimpulse doesn't map to any vim-like feature, but to
> end-of-visual-line, whereas in vim-mode it does something else (don't
> remember, maybe copying from above/below in insert mode?).

Well, as long as the differences are just the key-bindings, there should 
be no problem to provide different default sets. Sometimes commands 
itself behave differently but usually those differences are small.

The default behaviour may be mysterious or by accident - they work as 
they do because no one cared about that concrete behaviour, e.g., some 
Emacs key-bindings work because there is no overwriting binding and the 
author never used it. Therefore it is important to tell us which 
behaviour is different from before or unexpected.

Bye,
Frank