[TriLUG] VIM - back to sqaure one

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Thu Oct 21 14:08:16 EDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 14:07, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 13:40, gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> > Should I try to break this evil cycle by hitting the escape key on 
> > the line with a comment then hitting the 'a' key I still get a "#" 
> > when I go to the nextline.  I cannot "j" down at this point because 
> > this is the last line of the file.   So, my only option seem to be 
> > hitting enter to get to the next new line,  hitting escape to exit 
> > interactive mode, then "dd"ing the current line, the hitting 'i" for 
> > interactive mode, then hitting enter.  Now I have a fresh blank 
> > line, viens throbbing in my head, teeth ground to dust, and rage 
> > induced blurred vision.
> 
> I don't understand why you aren't using the "o" key to add a new line
> after the current one, as Dan already suggested.  It doesn't put the
> extra # sign as best I can tell, at least with my version of vim.

Oops, disregard.  Doh!

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