Re: Programmers Text Editor

["Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On Nov 6, 2007 9:30 AM, Allan Wind <allan_wind@lifeintegrity.com> wrote:
> On 2007-11-06T12:53:53+0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > My problem is that half the time i hit f1 instead and go into help ending up
> > saving some change or other to the help file or something else, not sure what
> > and go into record mode, not to mansion that pasting always gives me crazy
> > indentations.
>
> The normal PC keyboards do put escape far away, and close to the F1.  If
> it really bothers you then a Happy Hacking Keyboard will make big
> positive difference for you.
>
> F1 pulls up help with vim here and does nothing else.  Have you
> considered remapping F1 to Esc?  I have not looked into it, but I am
> sure it is possible.  q + something starts recording (of macro), and you
> stop that by pressing q.

Ctrl+[  is handy, especially if you have turned Caps Lock into a Ctrl key.

And, yes, you can use an map command in ~/.vimrc to use something
else as escape.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers