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In vim, prevent caret moving back when I leave edit mode?
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Mar 15, 20261940 viewsConfidence Score0%
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In vim, if I enter and leave edit mode without doing anything, the caret ends up one character to the left. And if I enter and leave append mode, the caret moves forwards and then backwards. Any way to configure vim to leave the caret alone in these cases? Ideally I just want to always enter append…
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This question gets asked frequently among new vi/Vim users, and the answer is that while in normal mode, the cursor is always "on" a character, but in insert mode the cursor is always "between" two characters (remember, the end-of-line is a characte…
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