Re: Arrows keys in insert mode stopped working...

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Marcin Szamotulski <mszamot@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12:40 Thu 07 Aug , Óscar Pereira wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 01:05:34PM +0200, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
>> >It was not fault of the plugins... I was an unexpected side
>> >effect of "" inoremap <esc> <nop> "" I setup to push myself to
>> >use ctrl-c to change from insert mode to normal mode.
>> >
>> >It is possible to disable the esc key without breaking the
>> >arrows?
>
> I guess you are using vim in a terminal. I think there is no way since
> if you hit an arrow key the terminal send an escape code which usually
> starts with the same code as for <Esc> key then they are interpreted by
> vim. You can check what vim sees when you hit an arrow if hit ctrl-v
> + arrow key in the insert mode.
>
> But your solution will work in gvim.
>
> Best regards,
> Marcin Szamotulski
>
> ps. please do not top-post.


I see, too bad. Thanks for the explanation.

Sorry for the top post, gmail interface pushes wrong habits.

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