On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:13:58PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: | On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:58:53PM +0000, Monique Y. Herman wrote: | > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:51:35 -0700, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: | > | > I just created the following last night. ctrl-j aligns the paragraph to | > 78 chars; ctrl-k makes it flow; use ':let my_tw=x' before ctrl-L | > to align it to some arbitrary number. | > | > " Ctrl-J/K formats the current paragraph | > " gggqG would do the whole file | > map <C-J> :let old_tw = &tw<CR>:set tw=78<CR>gqap:let &tw=old_tw<CR> | | that seems to work, but only if in normal mode.
That's the intended semantics of 'map'.
| Is it possible to detect the current mode and if in INSERT then
| still work and return in INSERT mode?
:help imap
An excerpt from the summary section of the vim manual :
:map {lhs} {rhs} *:map*
:nm[ap] {lhs} {rhs} *:nm* *:nmap*
:vm[ap] {lhs} {rhs} *:vm* *:vmap*
:om[ap] {lhs} {rhs} *:om* *:omap*
:map! {lhs} {rhs} *:map!*
:im[ap] {lhs} {rhs} *:im* *:imap*
:lm[ap] {lhs} {rhs} *:lm* *:lmap*
:cm[ap] {lhs} {rhs} *:cm* *:cmap*
Map the key sequence {lhs} to {rhs} for the modes
where the map command applies. The result, including
{rhs}, is then further scanned for mappings. This
allows for nested and recursive use of mappings.
Basically the map commands are specific to a given mode so that you
can set up different mappings for different modes.
| I'm finding with vim as my mail editor I jump in and out of insert mode
| for things that are kind of basic. I miss from Nano:
|
| Control-A/Contrl-E for ^ and $
|
| Control-J to justify
|
| Control-W to toggle wrap mode (which would be toggle paste mode in
| Vim)
|
| Control-K to kill a link.
I switch back and for between "insert" and "normal" modes easily
enough that it doesn't bother me. I also tend to leave certain
things, such as rewrapping, until I am done writing in the paragraph.
(BTW & FWIW, I think "edit" is a good description of normal mode)
| And maybe Control-U to undo
^U is still there.
HTH,
-D
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