Dont creep backwards on vim escape, without using <esc> mapping

Question

I have previously used the following vim mapping so that when I press esc , vim does not 'creep backwards':

:inoremap <silent> <Esc> <Esc>`^

However, this has quite unexpected side-effects (to me, at least), for example, now that I have an <Esc> on the lhs, the arrow keys won't work anymore in insert mode (and a few other items that send escape sequences to vim.

Is there a better way to do this, or perhaps a settings within vim that alters this behavior? Ultimately, I want the behavior or <Esc>`^ , I just don't want to have an <esc> that is mapped on the lhs for other reasons. What would be the best approach here?

Answer 1

No need to remap <ESC> . You could try using this autocmd in your .vimrc :

au InsertLeave * call cursor(getcurpos()[1], getcurpos()[2]+1)

This code is a reimplementation of the approach described in the Vim wiki , which is more verbose (and possibly outdated). The command has a small latency though.