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Ergodox vim input for numpad keys can be wonky

I use the ergodox ez keyboard. When you're setting it up you can select either the numpad value of a key, or the shifted/regular value. These will behave slightly differently depending on your settings for application keypad mode. This is something that is set at the application layer, so you may end up dealing with vim recieing <esc>Ok if you are trying to type +. You can either try to find the way to get your application (in my case Manjaro's terminal emulator) to change the keypad mode (I couldn't find that), or you can setup an innoremap section in your vimrc to cover the cases where you definitely don't want the escape sequence.

:inoremap <Esc>Oq 1
:inoremap <Esc>Or 2
:inoremap <Esc>Os 3
:inoremap <Esc>Ot 4
:inoremap <Esc>Ou 5
:inoremap <Esc>Ov 6
:inoremap <Esc>Ow 7
:inoremap <Esc>Ox 8
:inoremap <Esc>Oy 9
:inoremap <Esc>Op 0
:inoremap <Esc>On .
:inoremap <Esc>OQ /
:inoremap <Esc>OR *
:inoremap <Esc>Ol +
:inoremap <Esc>OS -
:inoremap <Esc>OM <Enter>

This sequence is for PuTTY, but you can see which key to put after the <Esc>O by looking at what registers on keydown events. Alternatively, for ergodox users, only use the shifted/regular values for keys.

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