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Just noticed that this doesn't work for me. I have to hit Ctrl-Shift-6 (Ctrl-^) to activate the shortcut. Launching up my Vim it worked just fine so it's not something weird going on with my machine. Any idea what could be up with this? (I've disabled all my plugins (except the default plugins) and my init.vim)
Neovim 0.4.3
Vim 8.1
Windows 10
justinmk (current neovim leader?) states
ctrl-6 only works by accident in some terminals. The actual builtin mapping is
<C-^>.
https://github.com/onivim/oni/issues/2002#issuecomment-377688787
There is also https://github.com/equalsraf/neovim-qt/issues/170
So it just doesn't work for neovim (nvim.exe and nvim-qt.exe) even though neovim help is the same as vim for the :h CTRL-6 chapter.
Ctrl-6 works in gVim though, that's gotta be included on purpose, it's not a terminal. Wonder why they didn't implement that.
I am using Neovim both on Linux, Mac and Windows. For terminal Neovim, it seems that ctrl + 6 works as expected for me. On Windows, Ctrl-6 does not work. FYI, the terminal I am using for different platform:
For Neovim GUI client, you can add the following mapping to your ginit.vim:
nnoremap <silent> <C-6> <C-^>
