Re: inoremap

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:

Hi Ethan!

On Di, 03 Mär 2015, Ethan Hereth wrote:

> Hey everybody,
>
> I just got a wild hair and decided to try to create the following mapping:
>
> inoremap <C-`> <Esc>b~ea
>
> I want to use this to twiddle the case of the current word I'm typing (e.g. if
> I've tab completed a word, and it's the correct word but I don't want the first
> letter to be upper case.)
>
> This does not work, I'm having a hard time figuring out what exactly it is
> doing, I seem to get new lines of text every time I execute the map consisting
> of text I've recently added to the buffer. But what exactly gets inserted is
> hard to pin down in terms of a pattern.
>
> I hope this is making at least a little sense. This same behavior occurs when I
> start vim with -u NONE -U NONE
>
> On the other hand, if I create the map this way
>
> inoremap <C-p> <Esc>b~ea
>
> it works as expected.
>
> Does anybody know what's going on? By the way, I know that the map probably
> isn't as robust as it could be, but that's besides the point right now!

http://vimhelp.appspot.com/vim_faq.txt.html#faq-20.5

Thanks Christian, that explains it!

 

Best,
Christian
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