kakoune: Why can't I map key combinations?
It seems that map only supports single key mappings (with the exception of user mode which allows you to map ,
plus another single key).
- Is there a documented reason for this? I tried pretty extensively to find it myself but can’t seem to
- Obviously there are some combined keys in kakoune already, for example
ge
goes to the end of the file. Can I remap these somehow? - Is there a way to change the key for user mode? I’d like to use space instead of comma
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- Created 8 years ago
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Exactly the same way you’d map any key. In kakoune mapping are not recursive, the target keys are kakoune commands, not whatever these keys are mapped to.
Swaps the
,
and<space>
keys.Hi. For point 3, I also prefer
<space>
over,
:Single keys mapping is mostly a question of simplicity, supporting multi keys mapping means we need to disambiguate between ‘a’ being mapped, and ‘ab’. How do we do that ? with a timer ?
You can however implement your own multi key mappings with the
on-key
command, for example:map global normal i ':on-key %{ %sh{ case "$kak_key" in; 'a') echo 'exec blah'; ' ;; <a-b>') ... } }'
I guess you’d usually extract the on-key into a command, and just map the first key to
:my-command<ret>