Re: Why is caret (^) so slow?

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012, Tim Johnson wrote:

> * AK <andrei.avk@gmail.com> [120129 16:00]:
>> On 01/29/2012 07:50 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
>>> I've been using vim for 12 years now :) and am just getting around
>>> to ask this question.
>>>
>>> Why is the ^ so slow?
>>> When I press ^, there is a noticeable wait time
>>> before the first non-blank char is selected.
>>>
>>> I.E., on every version of vim I have used, I have found this to be
>>> so.
>>> 0w is way faster, but may not always be the desired result.
>>
>>
>> For me, it's instantaneous, and always been like that (I'm using
>> gvim). What does :map ^ show? -ak
> ^[[24~ <MiddleMouse><Space>
> which was set originally by .vimrc
> Thanks for that tip, removing
> map! ^[[24~ <MiddleMouse>
> from .vimrc seems to have corrected it.
> cheers

For the record, the '^[' portion of '^[[24~' appears to be an
escape-sequence-related mapping that wasn't entered properly. The '^['
shouldn't be two characters (carat followed by an opening square
bracket). It should be an escape character (which Vim displays as
'^['), which can be entered, in insert mode, by typing <ctrl-v> followed
by <esc>. <esc>[24~ is the VT100-compatible escape sequence for the
<F12> key. So, you could accomplish what that mapping probably intended
by doing:

:map! <F12> <MiddleMouse><Space>

--
Best,
Ben

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