Re: vi question: mapping a key to esc in insert mode
Thanks. That worked.
I was readinging a semicolon from a file, but that was really a silly hack.
Joel
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:33:18PM -0700, Dave Anselmi wrote:
> Joel Hammer wrote:
>
> > I use vi.
>
> I'm sorry to hear that.
>
> No, no, just kidding. I use it too. ;-)
>
> > The biggest nuisance I have with it is constantly having to hit the esc
> > button to exit the insert mode. I have remapped my ; key to do this. But,
> > now I have to type cntrl-v59 to insert a semicolon into my document.
>
> I assume you used map! to remap the ; key and the F2 key. You can change this
> behavior (macros calling other macros) by setting noremap:
>
> :set noremap
>
> If you want remap set, just unset it and reset it in the macro. Try this:
>
> map! ^[:set noremap^Ma;^[:set remap^Ma
> map! ; ^[
>
> The represents pressing the F2 key, ^[ means ctrl-vESC, and ^M means
> ctrl-vctrl-m. If you reverse the order of the map! commands, you'll have to
> use ctrl-v; rather than ; in the top one.
>
> I tested this in gvim 5.8, but I got the idea from a paper on vi so it should
> work for you. The paper ("Vi Macros, Abbreviations, and Buffers" by Fred Buck)
> is available here:
>
> http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~egp/misc/vi/macros
>
> Dave
>
>
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Re: vi question: mapping a key to esc in insert mode
Joel Hammer wrote:
> I use vi.
I'm sorry to hear that.
No, no, just kidding. I use it too. ;-)
> The biggest nuisance I have with it is constantly having to hit the esc
> button to exit the insert mode. I have remapped my ; key to do this. But,
> now I have to type cntrl-v59 to insert a semicolon into my document.
I assume you used map! to remap the ; key and the F2 key. You can change this
behavior (macros calling other macros) by setting noremap:
:set noremap
If you want remap set, just unset it and reset it in the macro. Try this:
map! ^[:set noremap^Ma;^[:set remap^Ma
map! ; ^[
The represents pressing the F2 key, ^[ means ctrl-vESC, and ^M means
ctrl-vctrl-m. If you reverse the order of the map! commands, you'll have to
use ctrl-v; rather than ; in the top one.
I tested this in gvim 5.8, but I got the idea from a paper on vi so it should
work for you. The paper ("Vi Macros, Abbreviations, and Buffers" by Fred Buck)
is available here:
http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~egp/misc/vi/macros
Dave
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vi question: mapping a key to esc in insert mode
I use vi. The biggest nuisance I have with it is constantly having to hit the esc button to exit the insert mode. I have remapped my ; key to do this. But, now I have to type cntrl-v59 to insert a semicolon into my document. I have tried to map F2 to insert a ; but that is not possible. Hitting the F2 key just results in an esc command being sent, not a ; symbol. I have tried to define the F2 mapping with cntrl-v59, and that works, but the F2 key then sends a ; which results in the esc function being activated. So, I guess my problem is, how do you send an ascii code to vi and prevent it from being interpreted if it has been remapped? I can get around this by making up a file which contains the ; symbol, and reading that file into my document with a macro, but that seems really lame. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
