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Tagged with keyboard-layout key-bindings
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Other ways to exit Insert mode besides Escape
The primary reason I like vim over emacs is that my hand movement distance away from the home row is very low (even as a programmer). However, the one main time that I do this is leaving insert mode, ...
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What is the most convenient way to work with different keyboards in vim?
I sometimes need to write Greek words, but when I am using the Greek keyboard, hitting, say, <C-p> will be understood as <C-π> and not as the command I intend. This can be fixed with :map &...
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How can I modify Vim to work with a different keyboard layout?
I type with a non-QWERTY keyboard layout. Many of the keys Vim uses are now on the home row, but some key bindings just don't work, the most obvious one being the hjkl keys.
How and where can I ...
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Can't map German 'umlaut' keys in .vimrc
I'm trying to find a way to map German umlaut keys (Ä,ä,Ö,ö,Ü,ü).
A simple shortcut like this won't work:
inoremap <c-ö> <Esc>
Nothing happens when I hit ctrl+ö.
Does anyone know a ...
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How to enter tilde (~), back tick (`) and special chars with a non-US keyboard?
I usually use Vim with an Italian keyboard (I'm from Italy),
(mainly in an Ubuntu Linux Virtualbox guest from a Windows host).
I have problems when I have to enter some frequently used characters (...
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How can I create a pseudo insert mode with a different keymap?
I am in the slightly unusual position of using two different keyboard layouts on a regular basis (Programmers-Dvorak and Turkish-F). These layouts are quite different from each-other and I am only ...
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How do you set no timeout for a specific remap?
The question arise from a problem using a huge remapped configuration so bépo layout is virtually the same as the qwerty in normal mode, at least for single key press commands.
Selecting text using ...
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german umlaute mapping
Hi is there a way to map German umlaute like "ö", "ä", "ü" to some keyboard shortcut, i.e. when I press the keyboard shortcut, it inserts the umlaut.
I am German and use an English keyboard layout, ...
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Gvim <C-]> not working with azerty keyboard
I have a windows 7 machine with an azerty keyboard running gVim 7.4
My problem is that <C-]> simply does nothing: When I'm in an help page I can't follow the tags links. As I have an azerty ...
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How do international users use Ctrl-] efficiently? Remapping?
Ctrl-] is how one is supposed to move around interactively in Vim on "linkable" text, for instance in the help files. On US layouts, this is simply a two finger combo. Unfortunately the "]" character ...
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How to completely change the `f` key to a `/` and the `F` key to a `?`
I use neovim latest version 0.10.1, I want to convert the entire function of f button to / button and F button to ?, because I often use / and ? function to search for more than just f and F, I ...
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How do I swap key bindings without breaking plugins?
I'm thinking about exchanging some keys while in non insert-mode so that the bindings that I use most are easier to reach (i.e. on the home row).
How can I swap two keys without breaking the ...
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How to open a vertical split to the main view not just next to the current one in case of horizontal splitted viewport? [duplicate]
I have 2 buffers on eachother covering top and bottom of the screen.
I want ot open a third buffer on right split but the problem is is I make a right split it will only split the top right or bottom ...
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NERDTreeMenu Remapping
I'm a Colemak keyboard layout user and I recently started to learn and use Vim.
I was able to map the arrow keys in the normal mode by putting custom mappings such as noremap u k in .vimrc (because ...
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What keys on my keyboard is <M-n>?
Stupid I know, but I can't find for the life of me what keycombination the <M-n> mapping is.
:bn<CR> is mapped to <C-n> wich is ctrl+n
:bp<CR> is mapped to <M-n> wich is ...
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Auto replace special programming characters
Programming in Javascript and similar syntax languages we use a lot of {} and (), more so than [] and the 90. Therefore we end up using SHIFT a lot.
Is there a way to make it so that when I type [ ...
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Recording and playing macros with langmap activated
Thank you for your interest in this rather specialized question.
This is a follow-up to this question : Mapping for expression register with langmap active
I’m looking for the best way to associate ...
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How to disable hjkl movements?
Before you crucify me please note I have a an Ultimate Hacking Keyboard and I already can move with arrow keys on the home row :)
I suppose I don't have to since I have a different layer to activate ...
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Remap square bracket commands to fit a swiss layout keyboard
I'm new to vim and currently trying to understand the different commands. :help index shows me a list of all commands for each mode. Section 2.3 is about "Square bracket commands" like [* ...
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Numpad characters don't work in keybindings mappings (but work in general)
For my terminal Vim 8.0, I have downloaded this plugin that makes changing font size on the fly easy:
https://github.com/drmikehenry/vim-fontsize
Following the instructions, here is how I decided to ...
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is it possible to map numpad differently?
Currently, the numpad does the usual things(input numbers and so on). numlock does nothing.
I wonder if you can differentiate numbers/char entered on the numpad from those typed on the main section ...
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Vim printing strange characters when hit "home", "end" stc
Why vim keep printing strange characters when I hit non-characters key?
Insert prints [2~
Delete prints [3~
Page Up prints [5~
Page Down prints [6~
Home prints OH
End prints OF
Arrow Up prints OA
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Special control keys in windows 7 don't work with the 'extended english keyboard (UK)' layout
Using gvim on Microsoft Windows, I find myself unable to use some control keys.
For example I cannot navigate the :help topics using Control+]. Likewise, I cannot escape insert mode using Control+[.
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How to type ê without pressing <C-k> e>
My keyboard layout is set to international american. And to obtain the character ê just press <sfhit+6> e. However, within the vim I need to press <C-k> e>. Is it possible to map <...
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Can I make left Alt act the same as shift key using key map?
I would like to swap my left shift key with my left alt key, and I would like to know if it’s possible to achieve this with vim key mapping.
Maybe not swapping but copy the whole shift key map to ...
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How to find the correct "keystring" for an input keystroke in neovim?
I want to map the keystroke Ctrl + § to :Telescope oldfiles in neovim. I naively tried this:
vim.keymap.set('n', '<C-§>', ':Telescope oldfiles<CR>', {noremap = true, silent = true })
but ...
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How to do a keyboard mapping for CR and Shift-CR [duplicate]
To do a mapping for return I can do:
"When in normal mode, treat an enter like insert+enter
:nnoremap <CR> i<CR>
However, I would also like to map a shift-enter as:
:nnoremap <Shift-...
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Use ISO Level3/5 as modifier in vim keymap?
I've been using the pseudo keymap solution from my previous question to great effect for 6 months now. The short version is that it allows me to keep the computer keyboard map in my usual Programmer's ...
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Meta-Model: Shrinking In Correct Direction
This questions sounds ridicolous, but is there any (mental?!) aid for my struggle when resizing windows?
Since the earliest days of my vi/m usage, I have struggle shrinking windows in the correct ...
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Making Numpad numerical keys work in Vim using Ubuntu 18's terminal
In my current machine, I use Vim 8.1 in a Ubuntu 18's default terminal (Vim is running with TERM=xterm256-color, which is a requirement for me). Everything works perfectly, with the exception of the ...
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langmap issue with [ and ]
I am using MacVim 1-727 and I have problems with mapping [ and ] with :help 'langmap'.
I have a Swedish keyboard and I set:
set langmap=ö[,ä]
If, for example, I open help pages and I use <c-ä> ...
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Custom Keybindings [closed]
I need a text editor for universal use and I decided that vim has the such potential. Vim is great software, but I as a new user find it difficult to get into, but I am determined to use it.
The only ...
