Re: Why doesn't the cursor go beyond the last character in Vim when in command mode?

On 02/24/2011 06:06 PM, Gerardo Marset wrote:
> I'm quite new at Vim and I love it already, but this question just won't
> let me sleep.
> Why is it that the cursor doesn't go beyond the last character when in
> command mode?
> I find it kind of wierd, and because of that I have to use either a or A
> to append something to a line (instead of i).

I don't find it weird personally, and I don't think 'a' is any harder to
use than i, and you can also use i and then move cursor one char to the
right, as well.

However, there is a 'virtualedit' option that allows you to move one
char past end of line:

:set virtualedit=onemore

see

:help 'virtualedit

-Rainyday

>
> And by the way, both the faq
> (http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/vimfaq2html3.pl) and the tips
> archive (http://www.vim.org/tip_index.php) seem to be broken...
>

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