Re: CTRL+W under MS Windows

Hello Tony, thanks for reply.

> - When I was on Windows (98, then XP), I never needed to hold the Shift key
> to generate a Ctrl+letter combo. If your keyboard doesn't produce anything
> for Ctrl+W unless you also hold Shift, then maybe there is something wrong
> with your keyboard.

I tried with two different PS/2 keyboard, for both I had to use Shift key.

>
> - You didn't say whether you're using gvim or Console Vim; gvim has more
> direct access to the keyboard. If Console Vim doesn't work for you, try
> gvim.

It's gvim, latest version 7.2. I also tried with clean vimrc, in case
mine affected somehow. With ssh connection from Windows to console Vim
in Linux over Putty I have to use Shift too.

> - The Ctrl-W prefix and the :winc[md] ex-command are equivalent. Mapping one
> to the other wouldn't be easy however, because the ex-command (but not the
> Normal-mode command) needs a carriage-return (an <Enter> keypress) after its
> operand.
>
> - You can also map something else (not Ctrl-w because Vim cannot tell it
> apart from Ctrl-Shift-w) to Ctrl-W.

I have given up the idea with mappings. It turns out that every
shortcut is case sensitive in Windows. I would need to remap way to
may things.

> In Normal mode, your best bets are F2 to F12 (maybe not F10 if it
> triggers the System menu), Shift-F1 to Shift-F12, or any accented letter or
> other non-ASCII character that may be present on your keyboard.

All F* keys are already mapped to some handy functions :)

> (Mine has ² é § è ç à µ ù that need neither AltGr nor Shift nor Alt nor a dead-key
> prefix, plus a host of others if I remove that restriction; but with a name
> like yours, I'd bet your keyboard is more likely Finnish than Belgian.) In
> Normal mode you can also use Alt-key combinations (to Vim, Alt-w is
> equivalent to the ÷ division sign 0xF7).

Yep, I have two different keyboards with Finnish and US layouts.
Alt+something is usually bind to menu items, so that's not an option.

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Aarto

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