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I am in the process of getting myself to start using neovim instead of vim/vi which has been favorite editor for over 30 years.

For my current use, I need to set keymapping to type characters that have diacritical marks. These are IAST diacritical marks available as keymapping file iast.vim. The keymapping can be switched by typing set keymapping=iast The way these keymappings work is you get gīta by literally typing g-ita. Likewise numerous keyboard shortcuts are present in iast.vim

The keyboard mapping works well in vim, but in neovim it works with a caveat. I have to enter the keys really fast to see the diacritical character show up as expected. This is on a Mac. I have experienced the same behavior using iterm2 or alacritty terminal.

Any tips to resolve this?

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    Vim and Neovim have different default values for some settings. See :h 'timeout' and all that stuff below. Compare the actual values in both your configs. – Matt Jun 20 at 16:56
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set timeoutlen=500 resolves this. Thanks Matt.

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    Please edit your answer and explain why or how timeoutlen=500 is the appropriate resolution. This will greatly help future readers. – D. Ben Knoble♦ Jun 24 at 21:17

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