Mac – How to jump to a topic in vim under Terminal for a French Keyboard

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I'm on a French keyboard and I'm unable to jump to a topic in vim: If I go ':help' the instructions say:

Jump to a subject: Position the cursor on a tag (e.g. |bars|) and hit
CTRL-].

I've tried various combinations with no luck. For example ALT+SHIFT+) gives ']' but adding CTRL does not work.

The only hack I found was to map CTRL-L to CTRL-] by add this to .vimrc:

map <C-l> <C-]>

Are there perhaps special mappings for French keyboards in Vim or Mac + French keyboards?

If you don't want to waste your CTRL-L, you can make CTRL-"] key" work like this:

:map CTRL-VCTRL-"] key" <C-]>

There are XVim and xVim plugins for Xcode, they are made exactly for this.

You can also use KeyRemap4MacBook for this (from answer on stackoverflow and this blog):

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If the file ~/.vimrc is not there, you'll just need to create it. To enable syntax highlighting, add

syntax on

to it. Also make sure that "Display ANSI colors" is enabled in the Terminal Settings.