On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 3:05:07 PM UTC-5, Ethan Hereth wrote:
>>
>> According to the following vim.wikia post you should be able to use
>>
>> Ctrl-O but I cannot seem to make it work.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Ctrl-O_instead_of_Esc_in_insert_mode_mappings
>>
>>
>> [SNIP]
>>
>> If I run the command ':!python %' (without the quotes, I never know if
>>
>> I really need to clarify that or not!) the python snippet runs like
>>
>> I'd expect to and I get the file foo.txt. However, when I define
>>
>> ':inoremap <F6> <C-o>!python %<CR>' and attempt to use it nothing
>>
>> seems to happen.
>
> <C-o> in insert mode will execute one NORMAL MODE command, then return you to insert mode.
>
> Think about how you would do this from normal mode and you get your answer.
>
> !python %<CR> in normal mode won't do what you want (if it does anything).
>
> But, pressing ':' first will do what you want.
>
> The following mapping should work:
>
> :inoremap <F6> <C-o>:!python %<CR>
I knew it was something stupid I was doing. I don't know how that
slipped my mind. That indeed does the trick.
Thanks,
Ethan Alan
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