Re: special characters in abbreviations

On 31.05.18 08:09, Robert Bower wrote:
> I have the following abbreviation
> iab julianheader <esc>:r!~/.bin/datevim.sh<cr>
>
> It worked fine till I swapped the caps lock and the escape key at the
> os level. FYI I am using Ubuntu 16.04 Now the abbreviation no longer
> works. I am assuming <esc> in Vim now points to capslock

If you use xmodmap to swap caps lock and the escape, then Vim should
only see the keystrokes after filtering, and be unaware that it has
occurred. Here I have only made caps lock into escape, with no reverse
mapping, It works fine with:

" ^U Uppercase current word, in insert mode:
inoremap <C-U> <Esc>gUiw`]a

That's with:

keycode 0x42 = Escape
clear Lock

in ~/.Xmodmap.

I haven't tried it with the reverse mapping as well.

Erik

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