how to bind CTRL-<a number> to something else?
fka...@googlemail.com
is it possible to bind/map
ctrl-7 to {
ctrl-8 to [
ctrl-9 to ]
ctrl-0 to }
?
(If you wonder why: On my keyboard layout these often needed braces
are too hard to type.)
While I *can* bind things to ctrl-<a letter>, it seems impossible to
do this for ctrl-<a number>! Something like an ghost overlay
intercepts all mappings. I've played a bit with xmodmap, inputrc, my
window managers bindings and map/nnoremap... but no success yet. In
vim I get:
ctrl-7 -> ^_
ctrl-8 -> ?_
ctrl-9 -> 9
ctrl-0 -> 0
Thank You for any hint!
Felix
Gene Kwiecinski
>ctrl-7 to {
>ctrl-8 to [
>ctrl-9 to ]
>ctrl-0 to }
>?
Offhand, no. ctl-number == number, ie, there's no value-change in
"controlling" it.
This differs from 'a' == 61H, shift-'a' == 41H, ctl-'a' == 01H.
Some punctuation can be "controlled", too, but generally only those
which would result in values from 27-31 (1BH-1FH, so 5BH-5FH/7BH-7FH).
Tony Mechelynck
For portability, the only "Ctrl+printable key" combinations recognized
by Vim are those where the "printable key" corresponds to a character in
the range 0x3F-0x5F, or a lowercase letter, as follows:
? 0x3F Ctrl-? 0x7F (DEL)
@ 0x40 Ctrl-@ 0x00
A 0x41 a 0x61 Ctrl-a or Ctrl-A 0x01
B 0x42 b 0x62 Ctrl-b or Ctrl-B 0x02
...etc...
H 0x48 h 0x68 Ctrl-h or Ctrl-H 0x08 (BSP)
I 0x49 i 0x69 Ctrl-i or Ctrl-I 0x09 (HT)
J 0x4A j 0x6A Ctrl-j or Ctrl-J 0x0A (LF)
...
M 0x4D m 0x6D Ctrl-m or Ctrl-M 0x0D (CR)
...
Y 0x59 y 0x79 Ctrl-y or Ctrl-Y 0x19
Z 0x5A z 0x7A Ctrl-z or Ctrl-Z 0x1A
[ 0x5B Ctrl-[ 0x1B (ESC)
\ 0x5C Ctrl-\ 0x1D
] 0x5D Ctrl-] 0x1D
^ 0x5E Ctrl-^ 0x1E
_ 0x5F Ctrl-_ 0x1F
This also explains how Ctrl-[ and Esc, Ctrl-I and Tab, Ctrl-M and Enter,
etc., are pairs of synonyms to Vim.
In general, when creating mappings in Vim, I recommend using Fn and
Shift-n keys (where 1 <= n <= 12). As for Ctrl-Fn and (I think) Alt-Fn,
they can be used on Windows but (at least under KDE) not on Linux where
they are intercepted by the window manager for its own purposes and
never reach the application.
Best regards,
Tony.
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