Good vim tip

Bill Campbell bill
Mon May 17 11:34:48 PDT 2004


On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:03:27PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
>This is so good I just had to pass it along.
>For those who use vi(m), it is a nuisance to have to hit the esc key each
>time you are done inserting text. So, in my .vimrc, I reprogrammed my ;
>key to replace the esc key in the insert mode:

You obviously don't do any programming in C, Perl, etc. that uses
the ``;'' character on practically every line.

Bill
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