On Oct 8, 2013 7:55 AM, "Tony Mechelynck" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> On 08/10/13 05:07, Andrei Olsen wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 4:44:48 AM UTC+2, Suresh Govindachar wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For some unknown reason, my ESC key does not work -- neither on the
>>>
>>> laptop keyboard nor on an external keyboard. Is there an alternate to
>>>
>>> make VIM (without any menus) get back to normal mode?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --Suresh
>>
>>
>> This should help:
>> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key
>>
>
> Yes, that wiki page has the info almost at the top.
>
> FWIW, my own Esc key is broken (the electronics are OK but the key itself
has come unstuck then got lost). In programs other than Vim I actuate it,
when needed, with the tail end of a teaspoon. In Vim I could use Ctrl+[
(the ASCII synonym for Esc, which to Vim is just the same thing) except
that on this Belgian AZERTY keyboard, [ is AltGr+Dead^ which makes the
Ctrl+[ combo a little awkward to use; so I use Ctrl+C instead.
The CTRL-C has a known disadvantage of not triggering abbreviations and
InsertLeave event.
I would really suggest to switch to my scheme where ESC is located on left
Control and Left Control is located on Caps Lock, no matter whether or not
your escape key works: this is more convenient variant to work.
Note: on the keyboard where I have neither Control nor Escape (Motorola
Droid 4 hardware keyboard) I mapped jj to ESC. Control though is configured
to reside on Volume Up (VimTouch setting).
> I've tested this (with a GTK2/Gnome2 GUI-enabled Vim, if it makes any
difference) in gvim, in vim in konsole (X11 terminal by KDE), and in vim in
the linux console (pure-text non-X11 terminal); Ctrl-C works identically in
all three AFAICT.
>
> It is mentioned at several places in the help that on DOS/Windows,
Ctrl-Break works the same way too, which allows to use Ctrl-C as the {lhs}
of a mapping to do something else (e.g. if you use the infamous mswin.vim,
which remaps Ctrl-C to copy-to-clipboard, i.e. "+y or similar).
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
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