Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· descentintomael

Quickly and efficiently escape insert mode

Quickly escape insert mode by remapping escape to ';. This leaves your fingers on the colon key ready for commands.

inoremap '; <Esc>

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I use this: inoremap jj <esc>

over 1 year ago ·

@kablamo I avoided letters for this because I never know when I might trigger that combination and because having it on the j key would cause it to pause slightly when you type j. I've also heard on a few screencasts that some of the faster types don't like repetitive keystrokes since they can be slower.

over 1 year ago ·