vimpulse: imap "jk" to ESC

Fri Feb 11 23:06:45 CET 2011

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:51:43AM -0700, Tim Harper wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Tim Harper <timcharper at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Tim Harper <timcharper at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Linus Arver <linusarver at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hello, I'd like to know how to map "jk" to act as the ESC key in insert mode.
> >>>
> >>> I have tried
> >>>
> >>> (vimpulse-imap "jk" 'viper-intercept-ESC-key)
> >>>
> >>> without success.
> >>>
> >>> -Linus
> >>
> >> Try this:
> >>
> >>
> >> (define-key viper-insert-basic-map (kbd "j k") 'viper-mode)
> >>
> >
> > Nevermind... that's worse :)  It causes j to become a prefix key,
> > losing self-insert binding for j + any other key.
> >
> > It seems like a specialized function will be needed that will capture
> > the next key and need to insert a j + resend the other key pressed to
> > the unread-command-events... I don't know if such a facility exists in
> > vimpulse, but would be easy enough to concoct... I'll post an example
> > in a bit
> >
> 
> This works:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/822738
> 
> Tim
> 
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Excellent, it works! Thanks so much Tim.

I'll repost the code here for anyone else who is interested in this kind
of thing (a common scenario among Vim users is to map "jj" to the ESC
key).

; make "jk" behave as ESC key
(defun viper-escape-if-next-char (c)
    "Watches the next letter.  If c, then switch to viper mode, otherwise insert a j and forward unpressed key to unread-command-events"
      (self-insert-command 1)
        (let ((next-key (read-event)))
              (if (= c next-key)
                        (progn
                                    (delete-backward-char 1)
                                              (viper-mode))
                              (setq unread-command-events (list next-key)))))

(defun viper-escape-if-next-char-is-k (arg)
    (interactive "p")
      (if (= arg 1)
              (viper-escape-if-next-char ?k)
                  (self-insert-command arg)))

(define-key viper-insert-basic-map (kbd "j") 'viper-escape-if-next-char-is-k)

-Linus