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When Vim is in Insert mode and you press Ctrl-O it switches to normal mode for one command, then switches back to insert mode when the command is finished. Is there the opposite command? To switch to insert mode for typing a word (or a number of letters or a line), then switch it back to normal mode when the typing is finished?
Not that I know of, however, if you are repeating the same operation over and over again you can fake it by using the
.command in normal mode after you’ve made the change once.An alternative (in the same scenario) would be to record a macro and run it from normal mode.