[lug] Vim Modes Question

[Zan Lynx]

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 17:25 -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
> THanks. I think what threw me is that you have to type those key mappings
> fairly quickly to get them to work. As a test, I had defined:
> 
> :nmap ,whee 5j
> 
> (nothing fancy; just something to see if I could get it to work) and if you
> type ',whee' quickly enough, the cursor drops 5 lines in normal mode. If you
> type too slowly, it doesn't work. I thought the problem was with the mode
> or something like that, but I wasn't typing fast enough.

I think that's because those multi-key mappings are really intended for
macros.

If you had a keyboard that sent Esc,[,J for some key, for example.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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