 Tip #466: Insert one character only
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April 30, 2003 10:10 |
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johnmaxa |
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I have not yet seen this idea yet. But early in my use and love of Vim, I got frustrated in command mode when I wanted to insert just one character of text. So I put this in _vimrc:
"insert one character
noremap <somekey> i<Space><Esc>r
I think it has been one of the most time saving mappings -- and I have remapped most of my keyboard.
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Anonymous,
May 23, 2004 23:34
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| Huhn, I've wanted this feature for years -- and expected it would take source modifications to make it happen. Such a simple little script. Thanks!
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Bertram Scharpf,
March 22, 2005 6:39
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This won't be repeated by the . command.
Therefore I define
nnoremap <somekey> :exec "normal i".nr2char(getchar())."\e"<cr>
nnoremap <someother> :exec "normal a".nr2char(getchar())."\e"<cr>
Bertram
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