Vim incompatibilities

This page references all known incompatibilities with Vi and Vim.

Please, don't bother us with 'why this command does not work like Vim does ?' before checking the mailing lists archives.

normal mode

Command	Vim behaviour	Yzis behaviour
'4o'	adds a line after the current line, go there, and enter edit mode. Copy newly added line 3 times when edit mode is left.	adds four lines after the current line, go there, and enter edit mode
'2d$'	erase from current position to the end of the line	erase from current position to the end of the next line
'Y'	yank the whole line	yank from cursor to the end of the line
'q' and '@'	you do qa and @a to record / play a macro	you do "aq and "a@ to record / play a macro, as with other commands related to register
'U'	redo	not implemented in yzis

Command	Vim behaviour	Yzis behaviour
CTRL-U	Quite complicated (see ':help i_^U'). Most importantly, if you enter insert mode, type some text without moving the cursor, and do ^U, then it will delete what you've just typed (a kind of delete).	Current implementation in yzis will always delete until the beginning of the line

Option	Vim behaviour	Yzis behaviour
'tabstop'	this option is set for a buffer and all views associated	this option is set for each view