Dummkopf's guide to vim

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 07:40:35PM +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
> > This is IMOHO stupid. It should start in edit mode because that is

I missed the first part of this. If it hasn't been mentioned all the
power of vim is configurable. So starting in insertmode is easy: 

echo set insertmode >> ~/.vimrc

Also, handy keyboard mappings for exiting, no matter what mode you are
in:

" F3, exit w/o saving ...
nmap <F3> q!
map! <F3> ^L:q!<CR>
map  <F3> :q!<CR>
vmap <F3> <ESC>^O:q!


" F4, save and then exit
map! <F4> ^L:wq<CR>
map <F4> :wq<CR>
vmap <F4> <ESC>^O:wq<CR>


-- 
Hal