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Asked: 2026-06-16T07:25:37+00:00

I am finding that I cannot map the keypad-Enter key differently from the standard

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I am finding that I cannot map the keypad-Enter key differently from the standard Enter key. I only observe this in Windows (XP and 7), both console and GUI versions of Vim 7.3.540, with no plugins.

To demonstrate this, I tried the following maps:

  • nnoremap <kEnter> :echo "kEnter"<CR> — this is not triggered by Enter or keypad-Enter
  • nnoremap <Enter> :echo "Enter"<CR> — this is triggered by both Enter and keypad-Enter

So, is it possible to map <Enter> and <kEnter> to do different things in Windows, or are my attempts futile?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looks like a bug to me. Seems to be working fine on Linux.
    On Windows, the keypad enter key doesn’t have a separate virtual key code (MSDN), but the two keys can be differentiated using the scan code. Vim probably doesn’t do this.

    I’m looking at this Autohotkey script that I made (screenkey.ahk) and I can see that it can tell apart Enter from NumpadEnter.

    So I can only speculate that this is Vim bug.

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