Re: How does work in gvim?

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 06:31:45PM EST, Gary Johnson wrote:

> Someone just posted a question to superuser

What is 'superuser'?

> in which they mentioned discovering that Shift-Enter is the same as
> Ctrl-F.

So why bother?

> I experimented a little and discovered that that's true, but only in
> gvim, not vim, and it's not documented anywhere that I could find,
> searching for "shift.enter", "s.enter", or "s.cr".

> It's not a mapping, as ":map <S-CR>" doesn't show anything and it
> works when gvim is started as "gvim -N -u NONE".
>
> My keyboard, using either GNOME Terminal or xterm with vim, doesn't
> seem to generate anything special for Shift-Enter, just ^M. I guess
> that's why it doesn't work with vim.
>
> I experimented on a Linux system, but I see that it behaves the same
> in gvim on Windows.
>
> Is there some reason that this isn't documented, or am I just not able
> to find it?

Interestingly, (@ChrisJones at least)..

| $ xmodmap -e "keysym Return = Return Next"

... enables Shift-Enter in Vim '^gvim'.

Go figure...

CJ

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