Re: eVim - easy Vim - How to make it work on Ubuntu?

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On July 17, 2014 5:34:54 PM GMT+03:00, Igor Forca <igor2x@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>I have been running Vim for several years and I like it a lot. But
>recently some of servers where migrated from Windows to headles Linux
>servers (Ubuntu and openSuse) and now we have Windows users who very
>rarely have to edit some configuration files. To learn Vim text editor
>is just a waste of there time. You know between two Vim usage they
>forget most of the commands.
>
>To solve this problem I have researched eVim program (Vim in eVim
>mode). I started testing on my Windows 7 PC where is my day to day
>Vim.exe installed.
>
>So starting Vim in eVim mode from command line:
>vim -y myfile
>
>Now Vim becomes eVim (you know dummy insert mode all the time

>and using
>classic CTRL+action key like in Notepad for Windows).

This part has nothing to do with evim. These mappings are defined in $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim which is for some reason sourced by default on windows.

> Now I can use:
>CTRL+C to copy text
>CTRL+X to cut text
>CTRL+V to paste text
>SHIFT+arrow_keys to select text
>CTRL+A to select whole file
>CTRL+S to save a file
>CTRL+L to get into command mode and type :q to exit eVim
>CTRL+O to get into command mode just for one command and then back to
>insert mode
>
>All this works fine on Vim for Windows, but does not work at all in Vim
>for Ubuntu and Suse. All Vim's version are 7.4.
>
>Now the question:
>I have logged to Ubuntu 14.04 (also on Suse SLES) server and started
>the "vim -y myfile" command and CTRL+action commands just don't work.
>
>How to make eVim to work on Ubuntu (or Suse)?
>
>P.S. Bonus question: Is there any quicker way to exit eVim beside
>CTRL+L and :q ?
>Thanks

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