On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, John R. Culleton wrote: [snip]
functions, e.g., F3 activates an external program. The equivalent map command would beimap <F3> <Ctrl-O>:!pdftex book.tex<Cr>a
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When I try to import such a string it just gets added to the file as text.
[snip] Change "<Ctrl-O>" to "<C-O>": imap <F3> <C-O>:!pdftex book.tex<Cr>a See :help ctrl HTH. -- Gerald