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I want to map

  • semicolon (;) to Escape
  • Ctrl+semicolon to semicolon

and wrote the following in my .vmrc

  1. inoremap ; <ESC>

  2. inoremap <C-;> ;

(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.

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    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
  • :help i_ctrl-v… Vim is a modal editor. – romainl May 17 '16 at 5:10
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    @muru: confirmed here in iterm2, tmux, zsh, as well as the macvim gui. – nobe4 May 17 '16 at 8:23
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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.

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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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Ctrl-; is not a valid control sequence, so vim cannot capture it. You will need to use gvim or to configure your terminal emulator to translate Ctrl-; to something vim can capture

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