sent 11:08:51 20 February 2011, Sunday
by Ben Schmidt:
> P.S. You can do the escaping differently using the <> notation, but you
>
> still need a 'double escape' kind of thing:
> :map whatever <Esc>:map q <lt>C-b><Enter>
You don't: ``execute "noremap q \<C-b>"'' works as expected. <> notation is for
readability (especially if you want to read file using `cat' without -v or paste
it on some pastebins), it is not required for noremap command itself. Having
<LT>C-b> is against readability.
Original message:
> > map #3 ^[:map q ^B^M
> >
> > which does not produce any errors, but doesn't work. Pressing F3 causes
> > vim to display "No mapping found".
> >
> > I suspect my problem is that I'm trying to do a mapping with a map
> > command (something akin to trying to print a double quote inside of a
> > double-quoted string).
>
> Yes, that's pretty much it. In order to make a ^B actually appear on the
> commandline while you're typing, you need to type ^V before it. So you
> need
>
> map #3 ^[:map q ^V^B^M
>
> The right hand side is the list of keys you need to press to get
>
> :map q ^B
>
> to appear on the commandline. (And of course the ^M confirms it, by
> 'pressing enter'.)
>
> Not sure what you have the ^[ there for; if it's just a normal mode
> mapping, you shouldn't need to exit any other mode by pressing escape.
> It may cause a beep/error and abort the mapping, though, so perhaps you
> should try without that, too.
>
> Ben.
>
> P.S. You can do the escaping differently using the <> notation, but you
>
> still need a 'double escape' kind of thing:
> :map whatever <Esc>:map q <lt>C-b><Enter>
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