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Doing an action when pressing a key. These are also called key mappings or mappings. For questions about default key bindings, as well as creating or redefining key bindings.

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Can I make old Vim treat Alt key mappings <M-..> as Esc-prefixed, like Neovim and other CLI ...

No, I cannot. While in practice it usually works well enough, Vim creator thinks it is a bad idea. So, either <Esc> prefix should be mapped explicitly nnoremap <Esc>y :echo 'hello'<cr> or special :se …
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Can I make old Vim treat Alt key mappings <M-..> as Esc-prefixed, like Neovim and other CLI ... [duplicate]

Do Vim users use Alt key for mappings? If yes, how exactly? As it is known, there are 2 common ways of handling Alt key in CLI software: either <Esc>-prefix or 8-bit. It seems like Vim chooses the lat …
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Delete word or whole line part after cursor in colon-command mode with keybinding

I would like my NeoVim to have Emacs-style keybindings in all "direct input" modes, in particular - Alt+d and Ctrl+k for forward word and line part deleting. I've done it for insert mode as inoremap < …
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