Mapping ; to Escape and Ctrl+; to ;

Question

I want to map

and wrote the following in my .vmrc

(1) allows me to escape from the insert mode, but (2) also behaves like Escape rather than giving ;.

What am I missing here? Any help is appreciated.

I suspect <c-;> is the same as ; in your terminal. Press Ctrl-V and then Ctrl-;, you'll likely see just ;. — muru, May 17 '16 at 1:19
Ctrl-V and then Ctrl+; give ;, indeed. Ctrl-V and then ; also give ;. Isn't Ctrl-V the blockwise-visual mode? — T_T, May 17 '16 at 4:24
@muru: confirmed here in iterm2, tmux, zsh, as well as the macvim gui. — nobe4, May 17 '16 at 8:23

Tumbler41 · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-17 14:10:46Z

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It looks like <C-;> does not work in vim. Might I suggest using <A-;> (Alt) instead? That one seems to work for me.

answered May 17 '16 at 14:10

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Thanks for the suggestion, but I want to use Ctrl+; to type ;. – T_T May 18 '16 at 1:02

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