set iminsert: why global, not local?

Hi,


Am I missing something, or is it impossible to set iminsert for a specific buffer only, not for Vim globally?

I mean, I have "set keymap=russian-jcukenmac; set iminsert=0", and if I switch to the Russian keymap via <C-^>, it does affect all open buffers. I tried creating a [conditional] shortcut with "setlocal" but with no success, unfortunately.

Help system suggests remapping <ESC> for INSERT mode like this: "inoremap <ESC> <ESC>:set iminsert=0<CR>" but then another problem arises: in terminal Vim, arrows (and probably not only arrows) stop working in INSERT mode (which is kinda obvious, since they do send <ESC> all the way long: Left is ^[[D, Right is ^[[C, etc). Probably, that's somehow related to timeout settings? Mine are "set timeout timeoutlen=3000 ttimeoutlen=100"

Summing up, my question is if it's possible to limit iminsert to a buffer? Would be grateful for any comments :).


Thank you,


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R

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