Re: gVim: Non-breaking space strangely triggers :simalt~

On 15 Mar 2013, at 21:58, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:

> I doubt these two issues are related.

You are right. The broken mapping was just a question of a misplaced space character. Sorry for the wrong clue.

> For your original issue, what mode are you in when you try to use this autohotkey script?

Insert mode.

> Why do you expect it to "paste" something?

Well, that's what Autohotkey does. 'Paste' must be a wrong word, though. Let's say, Autohotkey 'injects' a string. You type a hotstring followed by a trigger character and it expands it. In my case the hotstring 'excl'-Space should be expanded to ' !'. gVim stumbles at the nonbreaking space that precedes the exclamation mark and fires ':simalt ~' instead. This equals to Alt-Space which brings up the window's title bar menu, the one with 'Restore, Move, Size...' commands. I hit Escape, the script resumes and enters '!' only.

> Can you still get this issue to occur? You said it only affects one instance of Vim and the rest are fine.

Yes, and this is odd. I have one gVim session with three tabs and several windows where the issue is present. Then I open another instance of gVim and it's fine. But if I open the same tabs and windows in that trouble-free new instance and save it as a session, the issue reappears.

> I don't know anything at all about autohotkey so I can't debug that side. But Vim shouldn't show the menu unless it actually gets an alt keypress, and then it shouldn't show the menu at all if 'winaltkeys' is set to "no".

After some research I was prepared to believe that one can't marry Autohotkey to gVim as far as entry of special characters is concerned because their ways of doing it were different. I thought that Autohotkey used something like 'Alt-0160' whereas gVim expected Ctrl-K-Space-Space. But it does work in a virgin session! Why, oh why?

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