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01-18-2011

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A trick to avoid ESC in vim

Hello, I find a trick to avoid pressing ESC without key-maping in vim. I am pleasure using this method, because ALT key is very comfortble for thumb to press.

What's the trick? the ALT key.

When you are in INSERT mod, press

Code:

ALT+l                              switch to COMMAND mod without cursor moving.
ALT+h                              switch to COMMAND mod with cursor moving foward two char.
ALT+d                              switch to COMMAND mod without cursor moving up one line.
ALT+k                              switch to COMMAND mod without cursor moving down one line.
ALT+dd                             remove current line.
ALT+shift+ZZ                       save and quit vim.
...
...

Now, I think you have grasped this simple trick:
ALT+somekey = ESC then somekey.
PS: In GUI terminals, you should disable ALT as shortcut key for menu.

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NAME

       vimtutor - the Vim tutor

SYNOPSIS

       vimtutor [-g] [language]

DESCRIPTION

       Vimtutor starts the Vim tutor.  It copies the tutor file first, so that it can be modified without changing the original file.

       The Vimtutor is useful for people that want to learn their first Vim commands.

       The optional argument -g starts vimtutor with gvim rather than vim, if the GUI version of vim is available, or falls back to Vim if gvim is
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       The optional [language] argument is the two-letter name of a language, like "it" or "es".  If the [language] argument is missing, the  lan-
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FILES

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		      The Vimtutor text file(s).

       /usr/local/lib/vim/tutor/tutor.vim
		      The Vim script used to copy the Vimtutor text file.

AUTHOR

       The Vimtutor was originally written for Vi by Michael C. Pierce and Robert K. Ware, Colorado  School  of  Mines	using  ideas  supplied	by
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