Re: vim without esc and control keys

On Wednesday 31 December 2008 5:14 pm, anhnmncb wrote:
> 
> On 2008-12-31, Ben Kim wrote:
> >
> >
> > Dear Vimmers,
> >
> > I use putty to ssh into my machine from a windows mobile device (wing). It 
> > doesn't have esc and control keys. I'd like to know whether anyone used 
> > vim without esc and control keys.
> I havn't tried it yet, but I think you can remap all <ESC> or <CTRL> relative
> key mapping to another one that your keyboard has.
> 
> For example, map <Leader>c to <ESC>

a normal mode <Leader> map won't help him much when he wants to
<ESC> out of input mode

i think i'd recommend an iabbr -- maybe something like

	iabbr eee <ESC>3x

but then, no, it wouldn't trigger if you typed Wheee!

happy new year everybody!

sc

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