Re: [vile] Is it possible to map Escape to something else?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Paul Fox wrote:

> thomas wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Chris G wrote:
> >
> > > I'd like to use my ssh connection to my E-Mail with my shiny new Nokia
> > > E71, however it's rather difficult to send ESC.  Is there any way to
> > > change vile so that one can use another key instead of ESC?
> >
> > Reading the code, I'd try binding another key to the abort-command
> > function.
> >
> > (I don't recall why it's not in set-terminal; perhaps that seemed
> > redundant).
>
> i think it's because "set-terminal" is for settings that come
> directly from the tty driver.  ESC is purely an application-level
> binding.

well yes, it started that way.  But we've got name-completion and the 
mini-buffer toggle there.

Since there's a way to set it by binding, adding it to set-terminal would 
probably be confusing, but there should be some comment in the help about
the escape character (probably in the section on set-terminal ;-)

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