Re: why remap is not working

On 04/02/11 at 12:14P, Jean-Rene David wrote:
> * wei gao [2011.04.01 02:40]:
> > I want to add ";" to the end of line when coding. So, I add the following
> > map in vimrc. however, it's not working for me (if I change to <C-e>, it's
> > OK). Anybody know why? <C-;> is mapped to a special command already?
> >
> > :inoremap <C-;> <C-o>A;
>
> ... snip ...
>
> So, long story short, the reason you can't map <C-;> is that there is no
> such character.
>

This is true. One way to get around it is to remap Ctrl+; at the OS level to
something usable, like Ctrl+e. I use KeyRemap4Macbook to do this on OS X, and I'm
sure there's something similar for Windows/Linux.

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Steve Losh

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