Mapping control-minus and control-pipe

[Paolo Bolzoni]

Dear list,

I am happy tmux and vim user, but to reduce the mistakes caused
by muscle memory I would like to setup similar keybindings to the
two.

In tmux I use Ctrl-| to split the screen vertically and
Ctrl-Minus to split horizontally.

In vimrc I wrote:

nnoremap <C-Bar> <C-w>v
nnoremap <C--> <C-w>n

But it does not work. What is the correct binding?

Your faithfully,
Paolo

[Ben Fritz]

See what Vim sees when you enter those keys, and map those instead.

For example, when I go to insert mode and type CTRL-V to insert the next character literally, then I type CTRL--, I see "^_" which means I should probably map <C-_> rather than <C-->.

However, I normally get | by pressing SHIFT-\, and CTRL-SHIFT-\ gives me nothing at all in insert mode. Maybe mapping <C-\> will work, but possibly CTRL-| is not mappable at all.

[Paolo Bolzoni]

nnoremap <C-\> <C-w>v
nnoremap <C-_> <C-w>n

are close enough, thanks!

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[Eric Christopherson]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Paolo Bolzoni
<paolo.bol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> nnoremap <C-\> <C-w>v
> nnoremap <C-_> <C-w>n
>
> are close enough, thanks!
>
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 3:32:03 PM UTC-5, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am happy tmux and vim user, but to reduce the mistakes caused
>>>
>>> by muscle memory I would like to setup similar keybindings to the
>>>
>>> two.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In tmux I use Ctrl-| to split the screen vertically and
>>>
>>> Ctrl-Minus to split horizontally.

I'm curious as to how you mapped those in tmux. They don't have ASCII
character representation, so tmux shouldn't (theoretically) be able to
deal with them at all. Perhaps they map to other ASCII control codes
in your terminal (as is the case for Ben with ^-/^_).