Cleaned up some old keybindings I have not used in forever and fixed lightline-buffer: just needed to move the config for it to the very bottom of .vimrc for whatever reason.

vim/.vimrc

@@ -61,15 +61,6 @@ nnoremap <C-k> <C-W><C-K>
 nnoremap <C-l> <C-W><C-L>
 nnoremap <C-h> <C-W><C-H>
 
-" provide movements in Insert mode via the <Alt> modifier key
-"inoremap <Esc>h <C-o>h
-"inoremap <Esc>j <C-o>j
-"inoremap <Esc>k <C-o>k
-"inoremap <Esc>l <C-o>l
-"inoremap <Esc>w <C-o>w
-"inoremap <Esc>b <C-o>b
-"inoremap <Esc>x <C-o>x
-
 " fix alt meta mappings in rxvt
 "inoremap <A-h> <ESC>a
 
@@ -122,6 +113,9 @@ call plug#end() " end vim-plug
 
 filetype plugin indent on    " required
 
+"lightline colorscheme
+let g:lightline = {'colorscheme': 'powerline',}
+
 " use lightline-buffer in lightline
 let g:lightline = {
     \ 'tabline': {
@@ -147,7 +141,3 @@ let g:lightline = {
     \   'separator': '',
     \ },
     \ }
-
-"lightline colorscheme
-let g:lightline = {'colorscheme': 'wombat',}
-