[vim] Mapping <C-1> possible? - Editors

Klaus Nowikow wrote:
> I would like to map Control-<number> in vim7, but it doesn't work.

> Example: when I put 'map <F1> atest<ESC>'
> into my .vimrc the the F1 key is correctly mapped to insert "test".
> But 'map <C-1> atest<ESC>' doesn't work. Is there any way to do this?

These things usually depend on the environment in which you run vim.
What is your operating system and are you using vim or gvim (and which
flavour)?

Peppe
--
se nocp cpo=BceFsx!$ hid bs=2 ls=2 hls ic " P. Guldberg /bin/vi@wielders.org
se scs ai isf-== fdo-=block cino=t0,:0 hi=100 ru so=4 noea lz|if has('unix')
se sh=/bin/sh|en|syn on|filetype plugin indent on|ono S V/\n^-- $\\|\%$/<CR>
cno <C-A> <C-B>|au FileType vim,mail se sw=4 sts=4 et|let&tw=72+6*(&ft=~'v')

Preben 'Peppe' Guldberg wrote:
> Klaus Nowikow wrote:
>> I would like to map Control-<number> in vim7, but it doesn't work.
>
>> Example: when I put 'map <F1> atest<ESC>'
>> into my .vimrc the the F1 key is correctly mapped to insert "test".
>> But 'map <C-1> atest<ESC>' doesn't work. Is there any way to do this?
>
> These things usually depend on the environment in which you run vim.
> What is your operating system and are you using vim or gvim (and which
> flavour)?

I am using gvim 7.0 (patches 1-17, 32 bit with OLE support) on
Windows XP.

--
Klaus

Klaus Nowikow wrote:
> Preben 'Peppe' Guldberg wrote:
> > Klaus Nowikow wrote:
> >> I would like to map Control-<number> in vim7, but it doesn't work.

> >> Example: when I put 'map <F1> atest<ESC>'
> >> into my .vimrc the the F1 key is correctly mapped to insert "test".
> >> But 'map <C-1> atest<ESC>' doesn't work. Is there any way to do this?

> > These things usually depend on the environment in which you run vim.
> > What is your operating system and are you using vim or gvim (and which
> > flavour)?

> I am using gvim 7.0 (patches 1-17, 32 bit with OLE support) on
> Windows XP.

OK. That may be possible then. Try inserting the control characrter
literally in a buffer with

<C-V><C-1>

in insert mode. If it generates input, you should be able to map that
sequence.

Peppe
--
se nocp cpo=BceFsx!$ hid bs=2 ls=2 hls ic " P. Guldberg /bin/vi@wielders.org
se scs ai isf-== fdo-=block cino=t0,:0 hi=100 ru so=4 noea lz|if has('unix')
se sh=/bin/sh|en|syn on|filetype plugin indent on|ono S V/\n^-- $\\|\%$/<CR>
cno <C-A> <C-B>|au FileType vim,mail se sw=4 sts=4 et|let&tw=72+6*(&ft=~'v')

Preben 'Peppe' Guldberg wrote:
> Klaus Nowikow wrote:
>> Preben 'Peppe' Guldberg wrote:
>>> Klaus Nowikow wrote:
>>>> I would like to map Control-<number> in vim7, but it doesn't work.
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> These things usually depend on the environment in which you run vim.
>>> What is your operating system and are you using vim or gvim (and which
>>> flavour)?
>>
>> I am using gvim 7.0 (patches 1-17, 32 bit with OLE support) on
>> Windows XP.
>
> OK. That may be possible then. Try inserting the control characrter
> literally in a buffer with
>
> <C-V><C-1>
>
> in insert mode. If it generates input, you should be able to map that
> sequence.

Thank you for the tip.
I had to use <C-Q> instead of <C-V> beacause under Windows <C-V>
is mapped to paste text from the clipboard.
Alas, <C-Q><C-1> generates nothing. Is there something I can do
about it?

--
Klaus

In our last episode, <44e42f51$0$11094$3b214f66@tunews.univie.ac.at>, the
lovely and talented Klaus Nowikow broadcast on comp.editors:

> Thank you for the tip.
> I had to use <C-Q> instead of <C-V> beacause under Windows <C-V>
> is mapped to paste text from the clipboard.
> Alas, <C-Q><C-1> generates nothing. Is there something I can do
> about it?

First, you do understand, don't you, that there is no such thing as
Ctrl-1, don't you? There is no such character. Whether you can get
something out of the combination of hitting the control key and the !/1 key
or not, you cannot get Ctrl-1, because there is no such thing.

What you seem to want is to get some kind of string from the combination of
hitting the control key and the 1 key -- something like the escape string
you get from hitting one of the Fn keys -- which you can then map to
something useful. You pretty much have to do that at the system level,
which means, if you succeed, you'd get that string from hitting the
combination of the control key and the 1 key in every application, not just
in your editor. At any rate you cannot do with your editor's configuration
file.

It is absurdly simple to do this sort of thing in some BSDs and it is only
somewhat difficult to do it in X-windows. It is hard in most linux
consoles, and as for Windows, well, I think you're better off to stop
wanting to do that.


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