In vim (well, vim 7.2 for windows), the escape key
is used a lot but is a bit out of reach if you
want to keep your hands on the central keyboard.
At least for me. I'd be interested in hearing the
group's view on this. Any interesting mappings to
other keys? Tips for making fingers longer?

Hello,

I love "imap <silent> jj <esc>". jj is much faster then to go to ESC.

QFT. Although my version is "inoremap jj <esc>".

group's view on this. Any interesting mappings to
other keys? Tips for making fingers longer?

o Sven7 <Sven at (no spam) 7.x>:

group's view on this. Any interesting mappings to
other keys? Tips for making fingers longer?

I use this:

inoremap jff <c-k> " entering digraphs
inoremap <c-k> <esc> " remap esc to ^K

Thanks for your feedback. Ctrl-[ is pretty useless
for me as I use a Scandinavian layout. jj & Ctrl-K
makes more sense.

Has anyone, btw, tried to map esc to Caps Lock?
It's a big, accessible key I seldom if ever use...

Has anyone, btw, tried to map esc to Caps Lock?
It's a big, accessible key I seldom if ever use...

2009-09-09, Sven7 skribis:
Has anyone, btw, tried to map esc to Caps Lock?
It's a big, accessible key I seldom if ever use...

Had a go at that once. I find mapping Caps Lock as another Ctrl key far
more useful. Even (and especially) when vimming.

So how did you succeed in mapping Caps Lock to
something else? On what OS?

SM skrev:
2009-09-09, Sven7 skribis:
Has anyone, btw, tried to map esc to Caps Lock?
It's a big, accessible key I seldom if ever use...

Had a go at that once. I find mapping Caps Lock as another Ctrl key far
more useful. Even (and especially) when vimming.

2009-09-14, Sven7 skribis:
So how did you succeed in mapping Caps Lock to
something else? On what OS?

My OS is Debian Squeeze. In Gnome:

System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layouts -> Layout options... -
Ctrl key position -> Make CapsLock an additional Ctrl

SM skrev:
2009-09-09, Sven7 skribis:
Has anyone, btw, tried to map esc to Caps Lock?
It's a big, accessible key I seldom if ever use...

Had a go at that once. I find mapping Caps Lock as another Ctrl key far
more useful. Even (and especially) when vimming.

My OS is Debian Squeeze. In Gnome:

System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layouts -> Layout options... -
Ctrl key position -> Make CapsLock an additional Ctrl

And more generally, add the following line into the Section
"InputDevice" in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"

SM skrev:
2009-09-09, Sven7 skribis:
Has anyone, btw, tried to map esc to Caps Lock?
It's a big, accessible key I seldom if ever use...
Had a go at that once. I find mapping Caps Lock as another Ctrl key far
more useful. Even (and especially) when vimming.

In vim (well, vim 7.2 for windows), the escape key
is used a lot but is a bit out of reach if you
want to keep your hands on the central keyboard.
At least for me. I'd be interested in hearing the
group's view on this. Any interesting mappings to
other keys? Tips for making fingers longer?

On Sep 3, 2:06 pm, Sven7 <Sven at (no spam) 7.x> wrote:

In vim (well, vim 7.2 for windows), the escape key
is used a lot but is a bit out of reach if you
want to keep your hands on the central keyboard.
At least for me. I'd be interested in hearing the
group's view on this. Any interesting mappings to
other keys? Tips for making fingers longer?

Use:
Control-[
That will generally work the same (typically generates an escape for
most sane keyboard and operating system configurations), and is
also often handy in that the Control and [ keys tend to jump around
less in position from keyboard to keyboard compared to the escape
key.