Something from the New York Times…
I’d finally managed to exile the voices in my head that told me my
personal happiness was only as good as my outward success, rooted in
things that were often outside my control.
Something from the New York Times…
I’d finally managed to exile the voices in my head that told me my
personal happiness was only as good as my outward success, rooted in
things that were often outside my control.
I use the excellent ConnectBot SSH client on my Motorola Droid to SSH into Linux/Unix boxen. Subsequently, I make the mistake of using Vim. Once I enter insert mode in Vim, I realize that the Droid keyboard (and probably every other smartphone keyboard) doesn’t have any key representing the Escape key (that is used in Vim to exit insert mode). There isn’t even a key, AFAIK, representing Control. After being stumped by this multiple times, I now do the following every time before I start editing with Vim when connected in via my Droid:
:imap qq <Esc>
Note that you have to do this *before* you enter insert mode (remember you want a key-sequence to be able to exit insert mode). Once set, I can enter ‘q’ two times in succession to simulate the Escape key action.
Instead of the key a following q when starting recording mode, you can really use any one of the keys 0 to 9 or a to z. The second key is basically a reference to a ‘register’ that sort of names your macro. You can record multiple different macros and play them back by recording to each one of these ‘registers’. The key you use on playback after the @ refers to the appropriate macro recorded.
Recording and playback of keystrokes in Emacs is explained here.
You can also assign different hot-keys for convenience:
(global-set-key [f1] 'start-kbd-macro) (global-set-key [f2] 'end-kbd-macro) (global-set-key [f3] 'call-last-kbd-macro)
Check out the KeyboardMacros Emacs Wiki page for more in-depth info on Emacs Keyboard Macros.