Question: Whenever I try to use Shift + : to enter command mode in Vi, nothing happens. I have to manually type : for it to work. This happens consistently, and I’m not sure why. Could this be a keyboard mapping issue, or is there some setting in Vi/Vim that could be causing this? Any advice would be appreciated! This is in Fedora running inside VMware Workstation Pro
I use ESC to exit edit mode, then vi is in command mode. I did not know Shift + : should do something (it does insert ":" character, though).
what do you mean by manually type : for it to work? unless you're using some alias or custom keymap you can't type : without pressing shift + : all you'd get is ; instead. and in edit mode, you'd still only get : it would just be typed where the cursor is currently located in the file rather than starting a command
