go to Normal mode via ctrl-C and ctrl-[

[Mark Edgington]

It should be possible to use ctrl-C and ctrl-[ to return to normal mode from insert/visual mode.

[Stephen Moore (delfick)]

Ok, I'll add that tonight at some point when I'm back from work

[Stephen Moore (delfick)]

So, I had a look at what these do in vim.

I use ctrl-C to copy text (along with ctrl-v and ctrl-x for paste and cut, because it's more convenient for me to use a mouse and those keyboard shortcuts) so sorry, I won't change that one (one day this will be configurable :p)

As for ctrl-[, from what I can tell, this one does stuff with ctags as well, which is a bit beyond me and I don't have time for much research into how to make things happen, so I'm not sure what benefit having ctrl-[ over esc would be when it can't do anything else .....

Sorry....

[Mark Edgington (edgimar)]

I can understand that about Ctrl-C/X/V -- so it would make the most
sense to make it configurable. Netbeans has a nice vi-compatibility
plugin called jvi that maybe is worth looking at --
http://jvi.sourceforge.net/ -- it is configurable as to whether a key
is handled by the jvi plugin, or by Netbeans. I guess you'd want to
do something similar.

Nonetheless, for the "hardcore" vim users who would choose to use the
gedit plugin, I guess that using ctrl-c / [ would be important since
it's a lot less wrist-strain than ESC, and vim has its own copy/paste
keybindings.

Anyway, looking forward to future versions! ;)

Regards,

-Mark

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:48 PM, delfick <email address hidden> wrote:
> So, I had a look at what these do in vim.
>
> I use ctrl-C to copy text (along with ctrl-v and ctrl-x for paste and
> cut, because it's more convenient for me to use a mouse and those
> keyboard shortcuts) so sorry, I won't change that one (one day this will
> be configurable :p)
>
> As for ctrl-[, from what I can tell, this one does stuff with ctags as
> well, which is a bit beyond me and I don't have time for much research
> into how to make things happen, so I'm not sure what benefit having
> ctrl-[ over esc would be when it can't do anything else .....
>
> Sorry....
>
> --
> go to Normal mode via ctrl-C and ctrl-[
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/645000
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