On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Vincent Wang wrote:
Gerald Lai wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Mike wrote:
I am switching from windows to linux for my development environment,
and working on 'porting' my .vimrc file. I have tons of Alt key
remappings, but I am having trouble getting them working in plain vim
(i.e. not gvim) from a bash shell.
For instance, the mapping
:inoremap <a-b> foo
does not work because vim does not seem to recognize the alt key. If
I use the 'Ctrl-V Alt-b' approach, I end up with this:
:noremap ^[b foo
which does work, but the :map command show that it really maps to
<esc>b
However, this is really annoying, because when I want to escape from
insert mode, vim hesitates for a second to make sure that I really
want just '<esc>', rather than '<esc>b'.
Is there a way I can get vim to use alt key remappings, without
mapping them to the <esc> key? If this is really an XWindows or KDE
config problem rather than a vim problem, then please point me to the
appropriate list/newsgroup/forum.
I am running Vim 6.4.7 in Fedora Core 5. My shell is KDE Konsole, but
I see the same problem from xterm.
I've addressed this issue of how to make keycodes more responsive a few
times on this mailing list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vim/message/66414
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vim/message/66451
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vim/message/69148
HTH :)
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Gerald
Hi, Gerald
If you can post this tip to vim's homesite, that will be Great! :)
BR
Vincent
Done :) It's a long one:
Mapping fast keycodes in terminal Vim
http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=1272
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Gerald
