inoremap

This is popular among some vim users to be remapped as Esc in insert mode (:inoremap jj <Esc>).

It even supported doing things like: inoremap jj <Esc>`^ Backspace ended up triggering the browser's back action though.

I've been using inoremap jk <ESC> for a long time now, and it works like a charm.

Naturally the first thing I tried was:inoremap jj <esc>, which I don't think works in codemirror + vim plugin.

I have function LispOpts() inoremap [ ( inoremap ] ) inoremap ( [ inoremap ) ] endfunction autocmd FileType scheme call LispOpts() autocmd FileType lisp call LispOpts() in my vimrc, which gains me all the ease-of-typing I really want.

You can also remap Esc to jj by adding the following to your vimrc inoremap jj <Esc> The hjkl thing feels weird for a long time but it becomes natural after a while.

Whenever I start teaching someone vim, I always add this to their.vimrc: inoremap <Left> <nop> inoremap <Right> <nop> inoremap <Up> <nop> inoremap <Down> <nop> This way, arrows still work as expected in command mode, but not in insert mode.

It's not that painful, I didn't have any problems on using Vim with colemak with only one alteration: inoremap lh <Esc> Before I used k-j, but the position of those in Colemak is 'e-n'...

When I was learning vikeys, I just disabled arrowkeys in my.vimrc:) inoremap <Up> <NOP> inoremap <Down> <NOP> inoremap <Left> <NOP> inoremap <Right> <NOP> noremap <Up> <NOP> noremap <Down> <NOP> noremap <Left> <NOP> noremap <Right> <NOP> I know it sounds masochistic, but it really isn't; I actually had to check after a while whether I really set it, because I didn't remember any issues with navigation.

My.vimrc now has "inoremap jj <Esc>" in it, and that was the final missing piece to get me into uninterrupted-productivity mode with Vim.

Most productive due to the sheer frequency of usage: inoremap jj <ESC> nnoremap;: vnoremap;: " Fix vim's terrible default regexp scheme nnoremap / /\v vnoremap / /\v vnoremap?

The great thing about the jj/jk hack is that if you end up on some random system or borrowing someone else's shell for a second then all you have to do is type ":inoremap jj <Esc>" and you're back in the groove.