VI/VIM question

Anthony Boynes aboynes at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 15:36:05 MST 2008


Capital A - that will take you past the last character in the line, and put
you in Insert mode.



On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Mike Hoy <mhoy06 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not used to working with either of these programs, but the same
> problem occurs in both. I use vim in windows and vi in linux. I
> generally understand the escape mode and the interactive mode. And I
> can save and quit programs. But I'm having trouble with the cursor.
> Say I have the following lines:
>
> Testing, testing, testing.
>
> And I go back to the beginning of the line, make a change to it and
> come back to the end of the line. The cursor is then stuck on the
> period after testing, or whatever the last character is. How do I move
> past that last character, tried arrow keys, but they don't seem to
> work.
>
> --
> Mike Hoy
> Saguaro Sports
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