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I have inoremap jj <ESC> in my vimrc on my Ubuntu 16.04. I have no idea why my jj not working and its just typing literally <ESC> in my text file for my jj press.
Any idea how can I get around this?
My full vimrc:
map j gj
map k gk
set smartindent
set nowritebackup
set noswapfile
set nobackup
colo delek
inoremap jj <ESC>
At the beginning of your vimrc (before your mappings), you should add:
set nocompatible
It will change many behaviours inside vim (see help), and will certainly solve your problem.
Here is a similar question on SuperUser.
Edit:
If this solution works, however it means that the compatible option has not been automatically unset by
Vim, which however should happen in most cases (see :h compatible-default).
It probably means that you're not using a user vimrc configuration file, like ~/.vimrc. In this
case, Vim would unset the compatible option automatically. So a better solution would be to put
your configuration in such a file (see :h .vimrc for other possible names that Vim will be able
to detect).
:h 'nocompatible': When a |vimrc| or |gvimrc| file is found while Vim is starting up, this option ['nocompatible'] is switched off. This command shouldn't be in your vimrc actually because it reset different settings which can cause trouble when you source your vimrc after start up
:h compatible-default: [...] then the option will be set to 'nocompatible'. [...] Note that this does NOT happen when a system-wide vimrc file was found. Maybe it's the case for the OP? And how could the described behaviour be explained otherwise than with compatible set?
Mar 23, 2018 at 9:46
.vimrc as an alternative solution?
/etc/vim/vimrc
Mar 23, 2018 at 11:44
set nocompatible, my commands from vimrc started working again. I have installed and uninstalled and removed all vim folders, but the problem persisted, I don't know why.
Oct 18 at 13:45
nnoremapinstead ofmap?<esc>to work you can tryinoremap jj ^[where^[is inserted by pressing<ctrl-v><Esc>(Also I wrote a question which may help you How to debug a mapping? )