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1) I need to capture the next key press from the keyboard, if there are any in 200 millisecond. Which function should I use to achieve this?

2) Basically I need to re-send the captured key, with some prefix key added. How can I check the code of key press properly? (I only need to check letter [a-zA-Z] and Ctrl-letter.

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  • Just to clarify, you want to capture the next keypress if it comes within 200ms of calling the function, but if it's after 200ms from calling the function ignore it? – DJMcMayhem♦ Dec 20 '18 at 19:21
  • yes, ignore if no key pressed with 200ms. – qeatzy Dec 20 '18 at 19:25
  • Maybe you should explain to us what you want to do because having to capture a keypress, given a delay is not that common in Vim a plugin... Maybe there's a simpler way to do what you want and you are facing a XY problem – statox♦ Dec 22 '18 at 12:32
  • Yes, it's indeed A XY problem, and now I simply forget about to capture keys. there are 2 case I want this. 1. in terminal mode, C-w to delete word. Which solved by set termkey=<C-l>. 2. with set timeoutlen=200, want to map g-someletter, for some easy type letter, it's ok, but for other letter it is un-usable. Then again, I decided to forget about it, since currently it's not worth to dig further. – qeatzy Dec 22 '18 at 12:54
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1) This should work for you, though it isn't perfect:

function! GetKeyUnder200ms()
  let l:start = reltimefloat(reltime())
  let l:char = getchar()

  if reltimefloat(reltime()) - l:start < 0.200
    echo l:char
  else
    echo "Too slow!"
  endif
endfunction

The only downside to this approach is that you'll have to press a button regardless of whether you press it within 200 milliseconds or not.

Of course, change echo l:char and echo "Too slow!" to whatever you're actually trying to accomplish.

2) You can check that with this expression:

if nr2char(l:char) =~ "\a" || l:char < 32

Or this one:

if 'a' =~ '[\x00-\xFFa-zA-Z]'

Or even

if 'a' =~ '[\x00-\xFF]\|\a'
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