Solution for meta/escape in terminal mode

Wed Apr 25 21:06:49 CEST 2012

Add the following in your .tmux.conf:

set -s escape-time 0

Frank explained the cause of this issue in the ticket below:

https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/issue/69/delay-between-esc-or-c-and-modeswitch#comment-974045 

On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Jason Miller wrote:

> Hi Frank,
> 
> I just ran a few tests and the problem does only appear to be an issue
> under tmux, when I use a bare terminal (rxvt-unicode) everything works
> fine.
> 
> An example of the problem would be from insert mode quickly pressing ESC k,
> which I expect to exit insert mode and move up a line. Under tmux it
> just says "End of buffer" and remains in insert mode.
> 
> -Jason
> 
> On 08:40 Wed 25 Apr , Frank Fischer wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:08:58PM -0700, Jason Miller wrote:
> > > I really like evil under X, but find it nearly unusable in a terminal
> > > due to escape/meta clashing in insert mode. I currently use exactly one
> > > meta keybinding in insert mode (M-Tab) and hardly ever press tab in
> > > normal mode, so ideally I'd like to supress all meta bindings except
> > > M-Tab while in insert mode.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > M- keybindings are usually placed in a keymap under the ESC prefix
> > key, so you could, e.g., replace the binding on ESC by some direct
> > command:
> > 
> > (define-key evil-insert-state-map (kbd "ESC") #'evil-force-normal-state)
> > 
> > But this would disable M-TAB as well. There is, afaik, no easy way to
> > get both because you can only have either the direct command bound to
> > ESC or the prefix-map.
> > 
> > But I think I do not understand your problem. What *exactly* does not
> > work as you expect? Evil tries to deal with escape/meta in terminal
> > mode (by doing some magic with a command bound to ESC which sometimes
> > behaves like a prefix-map) and it should work in almost all cases. If
> > it does not work we would like to know the exact situation when this
> > happens.
> > 
> > And for problems with terminal mode it is important to know which
> > terminal you use and if you use a terminal multiplexer like screen or
> > tmux.
> > 
> > Frank
> > 
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