Re: Simple Vim questions -- Backspace + Escape in maps

Thank you, this is the idiom I had wired in years ago and forgotten. I really appreciate your help.

-- Bertrand Meyer

On Sunday, January 1, 2023 at 5:21:57 PM UTC+1 3nan....@gmail.com wrote:

On Sun, 1 Jan 2023 19:56:48 +0600
Enan Ajmain <3nan....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2022 09:11:04 -0800 (PST)
> "bertran...@gmail.com" <bertran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2. How do I represent ESC in a macro (my name for the result of a ___map___)? I
> > want to define something like
> >
> > :map v iSOME TEXT<Esc>
> >
> > so that when I type ___v___ it will insert SOME_TEXT at the current position
> > and then escape (get out of insert mode). But I no longer know how to type
> > what appears above as <Esc> when entering the macro. I remembered various
> > incantations involving CTRL-V or CTRL-G but they do not seem to work.
>
> Which version of Vim are you using? And it _is_ Vim, not Vi, right?
> Because in Vim, your map should work. What I will recommend is using
> 'nnoremap' instead of 'map' because:
>
> o You want "v" to be mapped only in normal mode. Otherwise you can't
> enter "v" in insert mode without using ':h i_CTRL-V'.
> See ':h nmap'.
> o You don't want nested or recursive mapping. See ':h noremap'.

Sorry, I misunderstood your message. You're trying to map so that it
inserts the text "<Esc>". For that you need to add a literal 'Ctrl-V'
character in the map. Type this exactly (here ^V is a Ctrl-V):

:nnoremap v iTEXT^V^V<Esc>

To clarify, you need to press Ctrl-V twice, but only one literal Ctrl-V
will be inserted. It's quite intuitive once you know it. I am sure you
can explain the machinery yourself. Read ':h using_CTRL-V'.


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Enan
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