Skip to main content
Vi and Vim

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

Required fields*

6
  • 2
    Can you elaborate on what is single-normal-mode-key? You mean Escape? Commented Feb 19, 2015 at 9:10
  • 2
    I don't quite understand this answer either; Alt+x actually seems to do something different than Alt in normal mode? And some other keys don't seem to work? But maybe I'm using it wrong..? Maybe you could expand on your answer a little bit to explain how it works, and link to some Vim docs would also be good :-) Thanks! :-) Commented Feb 19, 2015 at 9:52
  • 1
    that actually depends on your terminal configuration and is not generally set as you seem to suggest. Commented Jul 9, 2016 at 18:11
  • 1
    I upvoted this, then checked the history and realised that for some reason a moderator had edited it to add 99% of the text from thin air, rather than just leaving a comment like the rest of us are expected to do. So I had to reverse my vote. Surely what happened here goes beyond the scope of sensible edits? I've had far less disruptive edits rejected. The new content is great, sure, but doesn't belong in this answer. It should've been its own. Commented Oct 29, 2016 at 21:35
  • 1
    @underscore_d, why on earth did the authorship of the extra content mean you "had to" reverse your vote? The purpose of the votes is to make the best answers visible, and only secondarily to award reputation to the answerers. If it's a good answer, upvote it; don't worry about the edit history. Commented Aug 14, 2018 at 23:16