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Re:Vim esckeys by imurray on Sunday July 15, 2012 @08:22AM (#4246815)
I'd wondered why hitting 'O' after hitting escape led to such a nasty delay when running vim in a terminal. Now I know.

For those that still want arrow keys in insert mode (sacrilege! ... but I do), this is probably the .vimrc option you want:

    set timeout timeoutlen=1000 ttimeoutlen=100
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Re:Vim esckeys by KevinSjoberg on Sunday July 15, 2012 @08:29AM (#4246821)
imurray, I will update my blog post with the given settings.
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