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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.

Yes it will, just use more ^V's.

Type this:    :map ^V^V^V   ^V^F
See this:     :map ^V   ^F

[NOTE: This is untested, but it seems to work]

You may or may not have troubble with the ~ command.

\Ruben.

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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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HansM

mdoob@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Doob) wrote in <C1F8AD.HF9@ccu.umanitoba.ca>:

| 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.

You may end up very sorry, because some built-in mappings (like s and ~)
depend on the space bar's meaning "move one character to the right," but if
you want to try anyway, type TWO ctrl-V's so that there is a hard ^V saved in
the map command:

"type ctrl-V ctrl-V space space
:map ^V  whateveryouwantspacetomean

Be sure to put two spaces after the hard ctrl-V: one to get quoted and one to
separate the two arguments to the map command.

vi may still object that it's "too dangerous to map that."  If it does, give
up.  I have successfully (and safely) map!ped <space><space>.

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