How do I 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?

Darn, typo in question. Can someone please fix it for me since I do not have the rights yet. Thanks! — Derick Schoonbee, Commented Jul 23, 2011 at 23:56
Same thing with a finnish keyboard (perhaps any keyboard where producing ] requires alt?). — Ilkka, Commented Aug 8, 2011 at 10:13

vince · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-17 11:44:05Z

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

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

answered Oct 17, 2012 at 11:44

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Gregory Pakosz · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-25 21:42:25Z

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Well on a Mac French keyboard, I just press CTRL+$ (the */$/€ key is the one located to the left of the return key)

answered Oct 25, 2012 at 21:42

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bassplayer7 · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-31 13:05:20Z

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I Use CTRL+5 on my Spanish keyboard.

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CTRL+5 Works on my Danish Mac keyboard as well.
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Derick Schoonbee · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-01 03:19:42Z

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Well, seems the answer is:

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

answered Aug 1, 2011 at 3:19

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