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I just got a Kinesis Advantage keyboard and want to remap Enter to Esc in insert mode in vim. I'm using iTerm2 as well.

Here's what I've got so far:

inoremap <CR> <Esc> inoremap jj <Esc> nnoremap <CR> i

On startup, this does not work: Enter enters insert mode, and in insert mode, jj exits insert mode. However, Enter does not exit from insert mode.

Then I reload my vimrc file:

:so $MYVIMRC

And viola, my Enter key now exits insert mode and everything works fine.

Any thoughts on why this would be happening?

Thanks

Mokubai
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thekevinscott
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This happens when you have a plugin or other script sourced after your mapping is defined that overrides your mapping. The easiest way to find out which is to run this command:

:verbose imap <cr>

This will tell you what the key sequence is mapped to, and what script defined the mapping.

Heptite
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