Thursday, June 28, 2012

Re: Where in the manual are i, o, and a as in ciw cow caw?

On 06/27/2012 10:24 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
> I've always wondered why "a" was chosen instead of "o" for the
> text-object.

I'd guess that "o" was not used because in visual mode, "o" is
already used to "Go to Other end of highlighted text" (from
:help v_o), and it's very useful to have text objects work in
visual mode.

Michael Henry

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