Is it possible to use some special keys from a ThinkPad
keyboard for mappings? What I am looking for is to map the
back and forward keys (above the<Left> and<Right> keys) to
:tabnext and :tabprevious.
The generic answer is "if (g)vim can see them, you can map them".
The question then becomes, can (g)vim see them?
The easiest test is to go into insert (or command-line) mode,
type control+V (assuming you haven't sourced the mswin.vim
abomination), and then press either your Back or Forward button
to see what (g)vim inserts. If *nothing* shows up, you'll have
to jump through OS-level key-remapping hoops to get vim to see it
as a key. On the other hand, if some escape sequence shows up,
you can map that escape sequence, something like
:nnoremap <esc>[123;45;678k :tabnext<cr>
where "<esc>" is 5 literal characters, and the rest is whatever
sequence the control+V inserts.
You don't mention what OS you're running (on X systems, you
should be able use xev to see what key sequences X sees, and
setxkbmap to nudge them around if they aren't already producing
something in xev; in other OSes, YMMV), or whether you're running
vim or gvim. I have some similar keys on my Lenovo G570, running
Debian, and Fluxbox sees them as XF86AudioPrev and XF86AudioNext
which I have mapped/intercepted to talk to xmms2 instead of
passing them to individual applications. On Win32 or Mac OS X, I
can't be of much help.
-tim
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