Re: Keyboard mapping being changed during usage

[Stefan Kell]

Hello,

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Vinicius Pinto wrote:


I'm using Vim 7.0 on Windows XP and my keyboard mapping is set so
brazilian portuguese (ABNT2). The problem is that sometimes when I'm
using Vim, it changes the mapping to US, so, for example, when I type
the "Ç" key, it prints a quote. If I close Vim and open again, it's
back to the correct mapping.

I'm not sure what's happening, but it seems that the problem occurs
when I alternate between windows using ALT+Tab. Is there anyone with
this problem?

Thanks,
Vinicius



That is not a bug, it's a Windows feature: if you have multiple keyboard 
layouts installed you can switch between them by pressing CTRL+SHIFT. This 
can be annoying and you can switch it off somewhere in Control-Panel. It's 
rarely documented but you can find it here: 
"http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnacc/html/atg_keyboardshortcuts.asp"; 
and here: 
"http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000pro/proddocs/probook/prof06.mspx";


Regards

Stefan Kell

Re: Keyboard mapping being changed during usage

[Paul Irofti]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 02:31:21PM -0200, Vinicius Pinto wrote:
> I'm using Vim 7.0 on Windows XP and my keyboard mapping is set so
> brazilian portuguese (ABNT2). The problem is that sometimes when I'm
> using Vim, it changes the mapping to US, so, for example, when I type
> the "?" key, it prints a quote. If I close Vim and open again, it's
> back to the correct mapping.
> 
> I'm not sure what's happening, but it seems that the problem occurs
> when I alternate between windows using ALT+Tab. Is there anyone with
> this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Vinicius

I'm a dvorak user. Everytime I end up on someone else's computer (or at a 
public console) I have to setup my layout from us to us.dvorak. Same goes for 
Windows XP.

The thing I noticed with Windows versions (2000/XP/2003) is that, even if I set 
the dvorak layout to default, it keeps the layout settings for each window that 
was opened before my selection. So each time I switch to an already opened 
window I have to select the dvorak layout. Newly started applications start 
with dvorak now.

Now all that's in theory. The thing is that Windows behavior is random 
regarding this issue. I can be in the middle of writing something in my 
favorite editor when suddenly the keyboard gets set back to "default", i.e. 
qwerty layout. This happens rarely but it's frustrating. Thank God I only 
encounter Windows at the University (-:

Anyway, you could be in the same situation here. I suggest you find a way to 
reproduce this (if you can) and submit a bug. Just make sure its vim doing all 
the mambo-jambo.