On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:45:43PM -0700, sinck@ugive.com wrote:
> Ob vi jab: What, echo mode and beep mode?  

In VIM, putting 'set insertmode' in your .vimrc file makes it start in input
mode.  You can then use commands by preceding them with ^O.  For example,
typing ^Odd in input mode deletes the current line.

This basically turns VIM into a modeless editor, if that's really what you
want. ;-)

> I also admit to having learned a Lisp deritave as my first major
> programming language, which would bias me towards emacs too.

Yup, that would do it.

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