Re: insert (paste) mode - escaping

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:

Hi John!

On Di, 09 Jun 2015, John Cordes wrote:

>  I use F9 to toggle between paste and nopaste, using these
> lines in my ~/.vimrc:
>
> nnoremap <F9> :set invpaste paste?<CR>
> set pastetoggle=<F9>
> set showmode
>
>
>  I also like to use 'jk' to escape insert mode on
> occasion, so have this map:
>
> :inoremap jk <ESC>
>
>  The latter works fine in the nopaste situation but not if
> 'paste' is set. Is there some simple way to make things
> work if I'm in paste mode?

No. The whole point the paste mode to disable mappings among others.
You could use <C-C> or <C-[> to exit insert mode.

 
 Ah! Yes, <C-C> is a good solution for me.

 Thank you Christian.

 John Cordes

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