Stickykey is a project mainly written in Vim Script, it's free.
You don't need press very far away meta keys
This is a mirror of http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2990
latest version at http://github.com/tyru/stickykey.vim/
This plugin provides Sticky Key to you.
With Sticky Key, you can emulate
And I suppose you are using GNU screen :) Inputting screen's hotkey is a little complicated. But you can send key input to screen fastly, certainly, and easily.
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