[Vimoutliner] Mapping the Windows key to Esc?

[Charles Burkins]

On Apr 23, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> On Monday 23 April 2007 10:28, Charles Burkins wrote:
>> MacOSX, and Linux/BSD. This command:
>> :map! jk <esc>
>>
>> will cause a quick 'jk' to kick you from Insert into Normal mode. It
>> takes a little while to get used to,
>
> I bet it does. I'd imagine that every time you hit a j, it would  
> sit there
> waiting for your next keystroke. How long did it take you to get  
> used to
> that?

If you don't like my 'jk' hack,  you could try the 'CTRL-[' key combo.

:help i_CTRL-[

But really, Vim doesn't seem to be sitting and waiting for my next  
keystroke. I use my 'j' key absolutely normally. I'm a reasonably  
fast touch typist, and I never notice any delay. I just tried to type  
several words starting with 'j' as fast as I could. I didn't notice  
any delay. Moving Down? I don't notice any delay. Typing 'jk' gets a  
delay, for sure, but I just don't do that very often.

Oh, wait! I just found one other place with a noticeable delay. If I  
hold the 'j' key to go down (something I don't happen to do), there  
is a half second delay after the first line (but not after any  
others), so if you move down that way, it might slow you down a little.

>
> Why didn't you make it jf? Seems to me that's an easier sequence to  
> type
> because it uses two different hands.

Perhaps, but in normal mode, 'jf' moves down and starts a find in the  
line, whereas 'jk' moves down and up, essentially a nop. I need that  
because I find myself trying to switch to normal mode quite often  
when I'm already in normal mode.


>
> I've become a Vim partisan, and indeed I'm now writing a book on  
> Vim, and the
> one and only objection I have to Vim is that Esc key way out in the  
> Pacific
> Northwest.
>

-Chuck

PS: What's the book about? ( I mean besides Vim ).