Hi, I'm using vim, and I have the default timeout, ttimeout, timeoutlen, ttimeoutlen options set. That is, timeout is on, ttimeout is off. The manual says: 'timeout' 'ttimeout' action on on or off time out on :mappings and key codes So, this to me means that both mappings and key codes will be timed out.
My timeoutlen is 1000 and my ttimeoutlen is -1. The manual says: ttimeoutlen mapping delay key code delay < 0 'timeoutlen' 'timeoutlen' >= 0 'timeoutlen' 'ttimeoutlen' This tells me that both the mapping delay and the keycode delay will use 1000 milliseconds as a timeout. This is 1 second. However, when I'm in insert mode, and hit the ESC key, vim immediately gets out of insert mode. My question is, how does vim know how to move out of insert mode immediately, since it should be waiting 1 second to determine if the ESC it received was actually an ESC or a key sequence (Home, F1, ...)? Thanks, Bob Rossi