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- From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
- Subject: Re: mapping space bar
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:47:24 GMT
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- In <C1F8AD.HF9@ccu.umanitoba.ca> mdoob@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Doob) writes:
-
- >Is it possible to use the map command to remap the space bar? If so, what's
- >the right syntax. Things like ^V<space> won't do the job.
-
- In the version I use, SVR3.1, it is possible, and takes *two* ^Vs.
-
- Unfortunately, a number of other command is implemented as if they
- were mapped to a combination using space, e.g. `s' is mapped to `c '.
- Mapping the space bar messes up `s' and other commands.
-
- It would have been nice if the author of vi had used `l' instead.
- It would have been even nicer if user-level maps didn't disturb the
- builtin ones, of course.
-
- While we're at it, two years ago Chris Torek posted an article in this
- group in which he mentioned that one should not map any of "ailru\_ $".
- I can understand most of these, but I have two questions:
- (1) What does `\' do?
- (2) Which command do I mess up when I map `u'?
-
- --
- HansM
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