On 4/23/07, Charles E Campbell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Viktor Kojouharov wrote:
> It turned out that these mappings broke the arrow keys in the terminal: > inoremap <expr> <Esc> pumvisible()?"\<C-E>":"\<Esc>"
IMHO, if one is expecting to use vim (as opposed to gvim), mapping <Esc> causes trouble. That's because most terminals issue escape sequences (<esc>..something..) when special keys (such as the arrow keys, functions keys, etc), and that mapping of the <esc> key messes up the escape sequence.
That's only true if Vim actually interprets the characters coming in as normal characters and not an escape sequence. In that case it doesn't matter if <Esc> is remapped or not, you're going to get weird results anyway.
Besides -- how do you get out of insert mode? I realize one can use ctrl-o and norm!, but that seems painful. If you're not using normal mode or command mode, then you're missing a lot of vim.
If the pum isn't visible it maps to <Esc>, so it's not hard to get out of insert mode. Just make sure the pum isn't visible. nikolai
