[SLL] Moving In vim insert mode...

[Xeno Campanoli]

Brian Hatch wrote:
> Sometime near 2008-07-02 18:59 -0700, Xeno Campanoli conversed:
> 
>> Say, I was just introduced to something I've apparently ignored for 
>> perhaps a long time and therefore never known.  Apparently there is
>> a configuration in vim that allows you to move around in text even
>> though you are in insert mode.
> 
> I don't think so - when in insert mode, every time I hit 'j' it puts
> a 'j' and doesn't move me down.
> 
> (Interrupted by coworker reading over my shoulder.)
> 
> Huh?  Apparently there are these things called 'arrow keys', though
> why someone would use them I don't know.  I assume it's a fad.
> 
> (Random observation: hjkl as movement makes great sense in QWERTY,
> but on dvorak you might not realize the historical significance.)
> 
> 
Yes, but the arrows allow you to move.  Of course you'd need the j, but 
the arrows are escape sequences, so they are somehow allowed.