Automatic insert mode and normal mode switching

Question

Coming from emacs, jumping to the end of the line is easy:

CTRL + E

I have been recently trying out Vim, and I found out you need to first exit insert mode to then use commands.

So, in Vim, I need to:

• go to normal mode: <Esc>
• jump to end of line: $
• go to insert mode: i

Is there any way to automate this?

Answer 1

If your terminal has support, you can simply press End.

Otherwise, use CtrlO to get into normal mode for a single command only. So Ctrl-O and then $ (or A) will do the trick.

In principle, you can remap Ctrl-E to do Ctrl-O $ (like inoremap <c-e> <c-o>$), but :h i_ctrl-e is sometimes useful in Vim on its own.