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

Gerardo Marset wrote:
> 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).

There is also:
:set virtualedit=all
:help virtualedit

One advantage of using A to append to end of a line is that the
operation can be repeated on another line by pressing . (if you
happen to need the same text appended to more than one line).

> 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...

The FAQ is now at:
http://vimhelp.appspot.com/vim_faq.txt.html

The tips are at:
http://vim.wikia.com

John

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