Monday, August 8, 2022

Re: Setting termcap entries: avoid literal Esc?

> In my vimrc I have entries such as these:
>
> set <s-right>=^[f
> set <a-h>=^[h
>
> where ^[ is a literal Esc. Is it possible to perform such assignments
> without using a literal Esc? For other entries I am able to use the
> & form (say, &t_BE = "\033[?2004h"). I am asking specifically about
> entries like the above, which either don't have a corresponding option
> in Vim AFAIK (<a-h>) or which have an option with special characters
> (t_%i).
>
> I am using Vim 9 script, if that matters.

Something like this doesn't work for options with a <> name:

&<S-right> = "\<Esc>f"

But this does:

exe "set <S-right>=\<Esc>f"


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