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In <C1F8AD.HF9@ccu.umanitoba.ca> mdoob@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Doob) writes:

>Is it possible to use the map command to remap the space bar? If so, what's
>the right syntax. Things like ^V<space> won't do the job.

In the version I use, SVR3.1, it is possible, and takes *two* ^Vs.

Unfortunately, a number of other command is implemented as if they
were mapped to a combination using space, e.g. `s' is mapped to `c '.
Mapping the space bar messes up `s' and other commands.

It would have been nice if the author of vi had used `l' instead.
It would have been even nicer if user-level maps didn't disturb the
builtin ones, of course.

While we're at it, two years ago Chris Torek posted an article in this
group in which he mentioned that one should not map any of "ailru\_ $".
I can understand most of these, but I have two questions:
(1) What does `\' do?
(2) Which command do I mess up when I map `u'?

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