Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-21 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:37 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: from: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com date: Thu, Feb 21 04:37 PM -05:00 2013 to: Grahame Blackwood grahameblackw...@gmail.com subject: Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key? On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:41:14

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread Tim Chase
On 2013-02-19 18:54, Erik Christiansen wrote: The tiny and distant Esc key on laptops quickly forced me to find something better, primarily for vim, I work primarily on laptops and found that esc wasn't the problem, but that it was too close to f1. So I mapped f1 to behave like esc so I can

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
:-) Thanks Daniel, I can't do that because I use capslock all the time for its intended purpose. Of course, what maybe I COULD (see what I mean) do would be to make Capslock Esc, and then make Esc capslock. I use capslock much less than Esc. SteveT On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:03:56 +0800 Daniel

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:50:38 -0600 Benjamin Klein b...@silver-chalice.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Thank you! You're welcome -- glad to be of help. :) I was going to say that I borrowed that one from Steve Losh's excellent (and

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: from: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com date: Mon, Feb 18 05:54 PM -05:00 2013 to: vim_use@googlegroups.com reply-to: vim_use@googlegroups.com subject: mapping a substitute for the Esc key? Hi all, I

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Lott
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: I'm actually thinking of using jf. The jk sequence seems a little slow/tiring because I have to reposition the hand in a weird way. Most who type in classical position have jk under their index and middle finger,

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread Tim Chase
On 2013-02-19 11:41, Chris Lott wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: I'm actually thinking of using jf. The jk sequence seems a little slow/tiring because I have to reposition the hand in a weird way. Most who type in classical position have

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread darkweasel
Am 2013-02-19 21:54, schrieb Tim Chase: On 2013-02-19 11:41, Chris Lott wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: I'm actually thinking of using jf. The jk sequence seems a little slow/tiring because I have to reposition the hand in a weird way. Most

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-18 Thread Benjamin Klein
On Feb 18, 2013, at 4:54 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Question for all of you: What's your favorite substitute for Esc, whether a keystroke, key combination, or key sequence? I use jk: inoremap jk Esc This one shouldn’t require a finger from your left hand at all and

RE: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-18 Thread John Beckett
Steve Litt wrote: Question for all of you: What's your favorite substitute for Esc, whether a keystroke, key combination, or key sequence? Some ideas are at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key I use the bizarre method on that page involving Enter (search for ToggleEnterMapping).

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:58:45 -0600 Benjamin Klein b...@silver-chalice.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2013, at 4:54 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Question for all of you: What's your favorite substitute for Esc, whether a keystroke, key combination, or key sequence? I use jk:

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:23:00 +1100 John Beckett johnb.beck...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Question for all of you: What's your favorite substitute for Esc, whether a keystroke, key combination, or key sequence? Some ideas are at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key I

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-18 Thread Benjamin Klein
On Feb 18, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Thank you! You're welcome -- glad to be of help. :) I was going to say that I borrowed that one from Steve Losh's excellent (and lengthy) Coming Home To Vim (http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/), but I

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-18 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Feb 18, 2013, at 4:54 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Question for all of you: What's your favorite substitute for Esc, whether a keystroke, key combination, or key sequence? The tiny and distant Esc key on laptops quickly forced me to find something better, primarily for