Wow... I didn't even know you could map to Alt keys!

... unfortunately since I haven't... I don't think Alt key bindings come
into play here.. :(


On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, smu johnson wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This has been happening to me for about 2 years, and I've decided to
> > do something about it.  If I hit the ESC key when I'm in INSERT mode
> > to get out of it, and quickly hit O to open a new line above where I
> > was writing, it writes the letter O on the screen, waits about 1.5
> > seconds, then erases the O and actually executes the O command.
> >
> > I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem.  This only happens if I
> > type quickly as I'm escaping from INSERT mode.  I checked my .vimrc
> > file and nothing seems to be mapped to o* or O*, which would likely be
> > the first place to look.
>
> Also look for anything mapped to meta/alt + O.  Discussion at:
>
> :help :map-alt-keys
> :help 'esckeys'
>
> Gist: alt+[letter] often maps to <ESC> followed by [letter], depending
> on the terminal, so is handled specially in terminal Vim.
>
> --
> Best,
> Ben
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