I can not understand terminal navigations keymaps

[mohamadiarch]

The file keymaps.lua contains these codes:

keymap("t", "<C-h>", "<C-\\><C-N><C-w>h", term_opts)
keymap("t", "<C-j>", "<C-\\><C-N><C-w>j", term_opts)
keymap("t", "<C-k>", "<C-\\><C-N><C-w>k", term_opts)
keymap("t", "<C-l>", "<C-\\><C-N><C-w>l", term_opts)

I am using neovim-qt in Windows and I think these keymaps are the same and just take me to normal mode and nothing more. Are they related to terminal navigation? I`m confused....

[FrostyNick]

I'm on Linux with nvim v0.9.0 and tried it in my own config.

What is supposed to be happening is while in terminal, you exit to normal mode <C-\\><C-N>. Then, switch a window in hjkl direction <C-w>l which doesn't seem to do anything.

In my config I was able to add a sleep in between both actions to fix this issue in a similar scenario. Haven't had luck doing that here (I haven't tried with [[ ]] maybe that would fix this; written differently since [[ ]] strings work differently.)

Notes for example below:

• Replace ":SymbolsOutline" with a plugin of your choice or a vim function, like :Vex (Vertical explorer). In this case, the window switches back to the previous window.
• Must have at least v0.8.0 for vim.keymap to exist and work.

Window change doesn't work:

vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>zo", [[:SymbolsOutline<CR><C-w><C-w><CR>]])

Window change works:

vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>zo", [[:SymbolsOutline<CR>:sl! 100m<CR><C-w><C-w><CR>]])