Re: Equivalent of vim's o or O commands

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Samuel Karl Peterson wrote:
> Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@gmail.com> on Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:44:17 -0800
> (PST) didst step forth and proclaim thus:
>
> > My first attempt didn't go so well. I chose viper level 5.
> >
> > 1) V did not put me into line visual mode, instead it attempted to
> > "Find file in other window".
> >
> > 2) v did not put me into visual mode, instead it attempted to "Find
> > file"

Looks like there is something called viper-visual-mode in vimpulse.el. I 
wonder why that does not work?

> > 3) Neither C-c nor C-[ took me out of insert mode back to normal mode.
> > There's no way I'm reaching for ESC each time.
>
> If you run Emacs in a terminal window (emacs -nw), C-[ should work for
> esc.  C-c works in lower levels (though not in ex).
>
> Viper emulates system V vi, not vim, and incompletely at that.  Things
> like :set nu don't work.  vimpulse.el seems to be all the rage these
> days.