Re: How to add two lines in vim?

* Bee <forth@calcentral.com> [130120 18:24]:
>
>
> On Jan 20, 3:13 pm, Bee <fo...@calcentral.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 20, 2:52 pm, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > O can only add one lines. I'm wondering if there is a built in command to add two lines at a time in vim. Does anybody know?
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Peng
> >
> > If you do 2O<return><esc> you will have two lines
> > --OR--
> > try 22O<return><esc> and you will have 22 new lines
> >
> > Bill
>
> Correction:
>
> 2O<esc>i
> --OR--
> 22O<esc>i

Actually, the trailing i is only needed if you want to end up in insert
mode, and is not part of the command that inserts multiple lines.

Note that any text inserted as part of the O or o command gets inserted
multiple times, as well. So that 5OHello<esc> will insert the line
«Hello» five times.

The delay between the <esc> and inserting the repetitions of the text
only occurs in terminal vim, not gvim or macvim. It is a consequence of
the keyboard handling. Terminal vim must wait a little bit to see if
the <esc> is part of a terminal escape sequence for keys like the arrow
keys or function keys.

HTH...Marvin

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