F1

[Max Waterman]

Hi,

My laptop has the F1 key where my fingers expect the Esc key to be, so I
tried to ':map ctr-vf1 ctr-vesc', but it made no difference.

Can someone tell me how to remap the f1 key to escape?

Thanks,

Max.

[John Beckett]

You need a mapping that's active in insert mode:

:imap <F1> <Esc>

John

[Tony Mechelynck]

You might want Command-line as well as Insert, and in addition Normal,
Visual and Operator-Pending. For that, use the following two mappings:

map <F1> <Esc>
map! <F1> <Esc>

Best regards,
Tony.
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[Max Waterman]

Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 19/12/08 08:44, John Beckett wrote:
>
>> Max Waterman wrote:
>>
>>> My laptop has the F1 key where my fingers expect the Esc key
>>> to be, so I tried to ':map ctr-vf1 ctr-vesc', but it made no
>>> difference.
>>>
>>> Can someone tell me how to remap the f1 key to escape?
>>>
>> You need a mapping that's active in insert mode:
>>
>> :imap<F1> <Esc>
>>
>> John
>>
>
> You might want Command-line as well as Insert, and in addition Normal,
> Visual and Operator-Pending. For that, use the following two mappings:
>
> map <F1> <Esc>
> map! <F1> <Esc>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
>

Thank you both.

Max.