Escape special keys in mappings using backslash

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Vimb - the vim like browser is a webkit based web browser that behaves like the vimperator plugin for the firefox and usage paradigms from the great editor vim. The goal of vimb is to build a completely keyboard-driven, efficient and pleasurable browsing-experience.

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Escape special keys in mappings using backslash #752

Closed ndtodoroff closed 10 months ago

ndtodoroff commented 10 months ago

Interpret the syntax \<C-R> as representing the literal key sequence <, C, -, R, >.
Add a <Bslash> special key so that e.g. the syntax <Bslash><C-R> is interpreted as the key sequence \ followed by CTRL-R.

My personal use case is the following mapping:

:nnoremap ;f :set x-hint-command=:sh! firefox '\<C-R>;'\<CR><CR>;x

this mapping starts hint mode and then opens the hinted URI in Firefox.

Closes #753

fanglingsu commented 10 months ago

@ndtodoroff Thank you for this pretty useful improvement.