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Old 03-17-2011
Problem to map VIM cursor moving in InsertMode
Hi all

What I want?
I want in Insert mode, press Alt-hjkl move cursor, and then back to insert mode.

I know ctrl-o, hjkl can do the job. but everytime I want to move, i have to press ctrl-o, or I have to count how many hjkl I will do, do a C-O (n)hjkl.

What I tried (example only with 'j')
Code:
imap <A-j> <down>i
imap <A-j> <esc>ja
imap <A-j> <c-o>j

none of them worked. moving cursor is ok, but cannot bring me back to insertMode.

I am not good at vim script or vim config, can anyone give me a hint, how can I do the mapping?

thanks in advance.
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Old 03-18-2011
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Old 03-18-2011
problem solved.

in fact, gvim works in any case. the mapping cannot bring me back to insert mode only in tty/console.

I used keycode mapping, and it worked both with and without gui.

PHP Code:

set timeout
set timeoutlen=1000
"set ttimeout 
set ttimeoutlen=50
if !has("gui_running")
    set <F14>=<ESC>h
    set <F13>=<ESC>j
    set <F15>=<ESC>k
    set <F16>=<ESC>l
    inoremap <F14> <left>
    inoremap <F13> <down>
    inoremap <F15> <up>
    inoremap <F16> <right>
else
    inoremap <A-h> <left>
    inoremap <A-j> <down>
    inoremap <A-k> <up>
    inoremap <A-l> <right>
endif 
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