Question

Weird issue here: I’m trying to avoid the Esc key to exit from insert mode. I stumbled upon this article: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key and I liked the following solution:

" Two letters.
:imap çç <Esc>

When in gVim I type:

:imap çç <Esc>

I does work. But when I try to make it default by putting it in my _vimrc file:

imap çç <ESC>

I doesn’t work. It gives me no error, but does not work. Every other letter works, but it seems that specifically the letter ç doesn’t.

Answer 1

You could write :

au VimEnter * imap çç <ESC>

in your .vimrc . au is short of autocmd and it is used to tell vim that you want to execute this one as a semicolon command. VimEnter is telling vim to execute it on startup.
The syntax is :

autocmd events pattern command

You could also see the help for autocmd