Questions tagged [escape]
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How to exit insert mode if pressing escape merely types "^["?
I have neovim 0.4.2 running in a session of kiTTY 0.17.4 on OSX. I have pasted a long url while in insert mode.
After doing this, every time I type BKSPC vim adds ^? to my document. Every time I type ...
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Special characters, escaped special characters, escape sequences, and terminal codes
I refer to those 4 terms using terminology picked up by various sources:
Steve Losh, in his Learn Vimscript the Hard Way's chapter 16 refers to things like <cr> (these 4 characters typed in a ...
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Attaching audio spoken word "escape" to Esc key stops escape key escaping to normal mode in nvim. How to fix?
I am running the latest versions of: Arch, nvim, and the Openbox window manager.
I often don't know whether I have actually hit the escape key or not, when exiting another mode to normal mode. If I ...
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How to stop a function when <esc> is pressed? OR how to catch a <esc> signal in vimscript?
I have a function which calls another function that reads user input from input().
function! fun1()
call fun2()
endfunction
function! fun2()
let temp = input("Please input:")
endfunction
What I ...
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