Which key mapping(s) have you made that you think other Neovim users might like?
Which key mapping(s) have you made that you think other Neovim users might like?
It's broader than a Neovim specific mapping, I've changed the system keyboard mapping of <Caps Lock> to <Esc> and <F9> to <Caps Lock>.
I think mapping <Caps Lock> to <Esc> isn't uncommon for Neovim users. But I like having <Caps Lock> available for non Neovim purposes.
At the system level I have Caps Lock mapped to Escape (because who doesn't), but I also have Caps Lock mapped to Control when I press it with another key, and I can press both shifts together to toggle Caps Lock.
At the Neovim level, I don't think I have anything ground breaking. Most of my keymaps I think are fairly standard within the community. But here's a couple of my more unique ones that I haven't seen many people use:
-- quick-switch buffer with TAB keymap("n", "<TAB>", "<C-6>", opts)-- Setup compilation keymap on fly -- -- This one's actually pretty dope. -- Sometimes there's a command I want to run frequently, but it's not -- something I want to dedicate a permanent keymapping for because it's so -- specific to the task at hand. So this is keymap for creating another keymap -- to run a terminal command with <leader>c keymap("n", "<Leader>C", ":map <lt>leader>c :!<lt>cr><left><left><left><left>", {})Oh, and here's some blasphemy for you, when I'm presenting I like to gesture with my mouse, or even sometimes just when I'm thinking through something. So I have keymaps in place to open my file explorer with right-click, or my harpoon window with middle-click. Then I have mouse keymaps in each of those windows to further navigate or select files with the mouse. Just makes navigating easier because I don't have to keep switching back to the keyboard (super fucking backwards, I know).
Here's my config in case anyone's interested. Maybe someone can find something useful in there. https://github.com/rnwtn/nvim-config/blob/master/lua/user/keymaps.lua
Yes, I also have caps mapped to esc, but done in keyboard firmware so that holding it functions as ctrl.
In neovim I have two escapes mapped to :noh
Just to clarify - means two taps of the esc key in succession will clear highlighting (ps I'm curious how other people do it!).
nmap <esc><esc> :noh<return>Here's what I do. Any search key will turn hlsearch on and <Esc> will turn it off.
vim.on_key(function(char) if vim.fn.mode() == "n" then local new_hlsearch = vim.tbl_contains({ "<CR>", "n", "N", "*", "#", "?", "/" }, vim.fn.keytrans(char)) local esc = vim.tbl_contains({ "<Esc>" }, vim.fn.keytrans(char)) if new_hlsearch then vim.opt.hlsearch = true elseif esc then vim.opt.hlsearch = false end end end, vim.api.nvim_create_namespace("auto_hlsearch"))
leader<y> to yank to the system
keyboardclipboard<leader> ywill put your system clipboard into the unnamed register?Yes
If you write blog posts, <leader> ss for spellcheck is nice
ctrl + x => :wqa
ctrl + s => :w