On Thursday, May 22, 2014 3:03:39 PM UTC-4, Miguel Bazdresch wrote: > > In vim, you can do something like > > imap \alpha<TAB> <C-V>u03b1 > > to reproduce this behavior. >
This works, sort of, but I find it a bit annoying. If you are too slow in typing "\alpha" then it doesn't perform the substitution. If you type it quickly, it works, but you have to type it blindly because vim doesn't move the cursor (the characters "\alpha" fall on top of one another as you type). Worse, it makes it harder t I find it much nicer to be able to type \alpha, see what I'm doing, and then type <TAB> at any later point in time, only when I'm ready to make the substitution. Presumably you can program vim to do this, but it may not be as simple as "imap"? On the other hand, I'm not a vi user. Maybe an editing mode that requires rapid, blind typing would fit right in with that editor. ;-)
