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.

  • dm319English
    4·
    2 months ago

    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

    • dm319English
      2·
      2 months ago

      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>

      • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
        1·
        3 hours ago

        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"))